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gj COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1854. NUMBER 31. VOLUME XLIV. lUtcklu l)ia 0tatt Journal 18 rCBLISIIID AT COLDUDUI ITIBT TOT8DAY UORN1NO, rouMU loaBotM, bmh and run ruin bitaafci or m.i. TERM in flAvwi .-In Columbus, M.00 . y4T bvoj.ll, 160; elub. of fbux ud upwd., $l'Jo; of ttuuuluf- nnl, (100. TUB DAILY JOUIINAI, Mirnlihed to cltj iutocriber, at M 00, uid bjr mull ftt Wi.nu. year. ' THIS IKl-tt tfcliLV JOURNAL It NJt Jr. KATES 0EADVERTI8INQ IN TIIE WEEKLY JOURNAL iiiiiiiiUiiiii Se Sa 0e eiSo So oi So liqum, 60 761 001 261 763 36 8 60 4 00 6 00 6 608 00 2 Muaras, 736264 00 6 00 6 00 8 00 12. 16. 1 i ' 1 1 1 squam, 1001763 368 604 606 00.6 609 0011. 17. 23 1 1 1 1 ' ! Isquam, 1 362 368 604 006 00 6 00 8 0010. U- 28. 39 t quart, ehanipabls monthly, t2Q a Jr ; wasklr 36. k tot unit), ehuiKMbIs quarterly 86. column, etaauirsabl quarterly 60. laolumn, ehaug hi quarterly. 100. 10 Una of this ilsml typ Is reckoned a square. AiWsrtlsauumta ordtred on th luild txcluniTely, double th abor ratal. All mdml doUms charged doubls, aiul nuMnnd m If wild. SPEECH OF HON, BENJAMIN F. WADE, OF OHIO, Delivered in the Senate, February 6, 1864, against The Extension of Slavery. The Senate having under consideration the hill to organize the Ten itnrie of Nebraska and Kansas, tho pending question being ou the amendment nf Mr. Ubase to mnice out irom section 14 the word : "was superseded by the principles of the loci. lalioa of 1850, commonly called ilio compromise- meos- nres, and- Sn that the clan so wilt read : "That the Constitution, and all Inws of tho United States which are lint locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effort withiu the said Territory of nenrasKuaieisewnero wiiniu mo united stales, except the eighth section of iho act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, nppmved March (i, lH'Jti, wnicu it noreoy declared lnnpernlive. Mr. Wade said : Mr. President, it ia not without em barrasiment that I rise to debate any question in the senate ot the united mates, fur it is well known thut 1 I lay no claims to being a debater of goneral measured I that come under consideration. I have generally con-; tented myself with the leu ostentatious, but perhaps 1 not less me fill, duty of endoavoring to inform myself upon every question that presents itself, and attending to iho all'iirs uf tho committees to wbh h 1 belong, leaving others to debate inch questions as may from time to timo'arUe. Hut on the prose nt occasion, sir, 1 should be doing violence to my own feelings, and 1 should be recreant in tho duty which I owe to the great Statu which I in part represent, if 1 did not rite ere, and endeavor, with what feeble powers I possess to stay the progress uf the meuur now under con sideration j for, in tny judgment, there never has been a measure of more- serious import to the people of tho United States. I bono it will he debated by ah'er men than myself) I hnpo tho enormities of Ibe prop, osilionwill beset forth in colors that cannot be mis understood here or elsewhere for it involves n cities, tion of good faith, which, in my judgment, is maieml to the perpetuity of the union of these States. It can involve no less a consideration ; for I do not believe, after such an act of perfidy committed in any section of the country, or by all sections of Iho country, that (hit Union can long survive ii. I can remomber wheu tho Missouri Compromise was entered into. I have some recollection uf that period, though I was then a very vouuh man. nnd I can remember how anxinady the people of that part of the country to which 1 belong looked to the pro gress of that question through Congress. 1 reinvm-: hr the fenrlul straggle (hat took place between the different sections nf the country, ana bow anxious our forefathers were lest it should prove utterly disBSTuiis to the union of the Stales which they then cherished. That was some thirty-four years ago ; and iho Missouri Compromise has been regarded, so far as 1 know, from lliat timo to this, as having a character not much less important or saered than that of the Constitution itself. During til that period of time until the present, I huvo not known a man bold enough to corue forward and question its propriety, or move, ils repeal. And why is ibat movement made now I When I came to ttiis Congress I little thought that such n question would be precipitated upon the people. Wo passed through a sectional excitement, which some beliuved endangered the union of these N tales, in 1850. I bud no serious apprehensions at that time; but many go d men many eminent statesmen, thought there wnn danger. The excitement, however, subsided, and good feeling was restored between all sections. A lime of peace, we were told, bad come; and for the four last years I have heaid but little else from the political press than that these dangerous, dillicult and delicate questions bad been all settled, to iho mulnul satislac-tion of everybody, and were to be concurred in and abided by at all hazards. They were to bo n finality ; and were not to be questioned, here or elsewhere In this nil the Government organs concurred; and from day today, I believe, all such piper have set forth the glories ol the compromiso of 1850. and hurled anathemas at any that should question its proptiety in any particular. Why is it. then, that at this time it Is not onlv called in question, but a mora sacred compromiso, that lies far back, is called up and questioned, thut it may bo annulled? What bus transpired ? What new light has burst forth upon the people of the United States, that they come forward at this lime and demand this great and hazardous measure ? I should liko to hear Irons the chairman of tho Com nil 'lee on Territories what now light has burst on these United Slates that requires this now clause in the hill which he reported 7 We all know that it is not a year since a bill to estab lisb a territorial government in Nebraska passed very quietly through the Mouso of Representatives, nnd came into this body t and that when the time of tho uongrnst was cut short by the Constitution, iho chair man of the committee was on his feet urging the Sen ate, at the top of his voice, to pass that bill. Did it occur to him then that the legislation of 1H50 bad tn peraeded and annulled the great compromise of 180,0 1 I heard no such statement nt that I true-1 but I beard tho President of this body, the hnnorahlo Senntnr from Missouri, Mr. Atchison, who lives in that section of the country, in his own person taking the benefit of that compromise. I recollect very well what he said upon tho subject, and no mun could be tuoro vigilant man ne was io unci some crevice uiiougn which ho could escape from the compromise. Hut ho told you that be bad considered it well; bo told you that ho had looked all around it, and he said bo saw that it was all wrong. Ma ail i runt I that we had cmmittnl I two great errors) first, when wo permitted the ordi j nance of 1787 to be npplied, ami, secondly, when the Missouri Compromiso was passed i but he said these things nra done, they are fads thut are Irremediable, and they mini stand. I submit In them, for there is j no getting out uf them, nnd (hero fore lam willing to f piss the bill. I ask again, thon, what now light has sprung up f ( I hoard all that tho chairman of the commiiteo bad In any on that subject, bill I am still in darkness. Then V why, sir, I again ask, has he introduced a clauso which Is calculated to excite the Onion tonvidnessT Can any reason be given for it that it did not exist on tho 4th of March last, when he was urging us to pass iho bill without the exceptionable cIhubuT No, sir; no sir. If any such reason exists he has failed to tell us what it is. Whence shall we seek for knowledge, toco the committee has failed to enlighten ns f If no reason can he given, we may ask, what motive could promot step so hazardous T When men will nol frankly disclose their motives, we are driven to an ex animation of their conduct t and we seek lo satisfy our craving for knowledge by tracking out the manner in which they have arrived at their conclusions. If there had been any reason that would bear the light for the clause which is now exciting so much attention, might we nut reasonably have expected to find it in ino utmueraie report mat tho co mini tire hid given reRj it, uif Mr. President, this conspiracy to overturn this old time-honored compromise, this old guarantee of liberty, i is not yet six weeks old. It baa been hatched some where within that time. I am not going to look back into the history of the opinions of the chairman of the committee, fur I know that they have been exceedingly mutable. 1 know, at Chicago, some years ego, he prem hed a doctrine not precisely in accordance with what he has lately preached bate. Hut that is entirely unimportant. I do not low pretend to show what his opinions are or have been t but here we have the authentic account of opinions that some Senators entertained at the time the report was tniulo. H a fore I nuote from this document, mav 1 be tier- milted to nsk whether they believed, at iho limn limy made that repnrt, that the legwlathm of 8.r0 superseded the old compromise of 1 820 f Did ony "ch idea enter into their imagination! No, sin not at all. They placed the bill that ibey then reported upon entirely ilillerent grounds; and although they had occasion to remark upoulhissame question, they said it was an important and delicate one, that eminent statesmen had not dared to touch, and they would not do it, That is the sense and spirit of what is contalnod in l lie report of the committee. They tny, on these suhjecle: "They inyule iho same grave Issues which produced the agitation, the sectional strife, and lie fenrlulslrug gle of 1850. As Congress deemed it wiso and prudent to refrain from deriding the matters in controversy, then, either by affirming or repealing the Mexican laws or by an act declaratory of (he true intent of the Con stilutioo, and Iheexteut of the protection afforded by it to slave property in the Territories, an vonr nommit. tea are not prepared now to recommend a departure from the COtlraa nllrlOd on thai mamnnliU m i-.amn "i10!-0' Arming or repealing the eighth section of um uiiMuuri sci, or Dy any act declaratory ol the That. Mr. President, is what that committee thought , about four weeks ago. Tiiey had no doubt deliberated unon this subject, and in this report we have the joint wisdom of iho whole committee embodied, so fit as we know, Tor 1 have heaid uoimseut from it. I ney reported a bill in accordance with that opinion; and is it not strange unaccountably strange, that these experienced gentlemen, statesmen and Senators should have entirely changed iheir ground, aud assigned no reason for the change? Within less than twenty days afterwards they get tho bill recommitted to themselves, but they have made no additional report. They do not tell us why they have changed their minds, or that any extraordinary occurrence has authorized the change which his been made in the amended bill, hich now contains the very provision which they be fore stated they carefully refrained from touching. Hut, sir, notwithstanding their extraordinary silence, they have diwoverod that the legislation of 1850 had, in some mysterious manner, superseded the most stern and stubbnrn Inwol Congress, which was formed upon a compromise as sue red as could be made be tween conflicting sections of this Union, and concurred in on all hands for at least one third of a century ; and yot they flippantly tell us that it is oil overturned, all superseded by the compromise Ic pi I a linn ot I8.U, I and hence they embodied this provision in their bill, and atk for ils pussnge. Now, ns a lawyer, I htirdly know what a man means when be tells me that an act of legislation is superseded by a principle. I thought it took an act of Congress to repeal, or annul, or suspend, a former act, 1 did not understand how that could be done by a principle. I do not know, however, but there may he sumo new menus discovered by which a stubborn law of Congress ono of tho most solemn acts ol legislntion, hardly less solemn than the Constitution of the United States itself may ho annulled, and repealed, and suspended, by a principle wliieh aortic gentlemen protend to have found in the legislation of 1850, called ' the compromiso;'lei-ila-tion in which not a single principle can bo mado out, as, t will attempt, very soon, to show. Mr. Douglas. 1 can save the gentleman tho necessity of arguing upon a point upon which he is evidently laboring under a misapprehension. I stated distinctly, tho oilier day, that my position was: That so fur as the country covered by the Missouri compromiso was embraced within tho limits of Utah nnd Nnw Mexico, iho acts of 18.10, in regard to those Territories, rendered the Missouri compromiso inoperative, and that so fur as the territory covered by tho Missouri compromise was not embraced in those arts, it was superseded hy the great principle thon established. In oilier words, I contend that by tho acts of 18'0 n great principle) of sen government was substituted tor a geogrnphical lino ; and houce, hy tho uho of tho words " superseded oy, t mean which wnn " inconsistent with ' tho compromise of 1850. If the gentleman prefers Iho words 'inconsistent with," will put thorn in with a grout deal of pleasure, and that will avoid nil the trouble in regard to the use of iho word ''supersede." Air. Wade. Tim Senator uiado a very siuiplo declaration in bin speech upon this poiut, und I have il bore. After all the verbiiigo id the spoech of iho honorable Senator from Illinois, it is summed up finally in ono idea, and ho anys so himself. Ho says upon this point : " Sir. in order to avoid any misconstruction, I w stato more distinctly what my precise idea ia upon this point. ni iitr as ino llloll anu iNuw ivlexico bill! in eluded the territory whir.hhud been subject tn tin-Mia soiiri compromise provision, to that extent tlioynbao-lately annulled the Missouri compromise. As to 1 lie mi B.mied territory not covered bv Hiohb bills, it whs superseded by the principles of tho compromise of 1851). Wo nil know that tho object of the compromise measures of 1850 was lo establish certain groat princi pies, which would avoid the slavery agiiniion in all timo lo cumo. as our object simply to provide for A temporary ovil J'' &c. That, he says, was hia precise idea. It was that iho Missouri compromiso wns annulled to tho extent to whic h Congress, in running tho boundiiry lines of New Mexico and Utah, might lake for thes iko ot convoni enco nuy litlte pieco of territory which was covered by the Missoiii i Compromise. That certainly was a trui.tm; but tho idea ih:it iho nets lo orpnnie Uiuh nnd Now M xieo repeal' d or superseded iho Missouri Compiomise as to tho remainder of tho territory ac quired by the L jiiisinnn cession, is nil idea from which i am glad to see iimt the yetiut'inan now recedes. Mr. oiiglas. Not ai all. Mr. Wude. Well, the Senator says bo does not re- eedu from his former position. What does lie mean. then, by saving that the Missouri Compromise was superseded by the principles of Iho compromise meas ures oi twin nuppoBn you run n nno witu your neighbor, and the line has becomo uticerlnin, nnd in order to straighten it you run nnoiher, aud in running tnisouier nno may posiuiy iu m a nni inmi belonged to him, or you may leave out a halo belong ing to yourself ; but you make u lino, and Ihen after you straighten It, it you hud you entered wrongfully on his hind, the principles of running that line super scded his title '.o tho baltnce, and therefore you citi lay title tn the whole of his land, if I understand iho gentleman; for he says ho does not recede from the positions taken in his bill not in his report, for it is said inero no never would give audi on opinion. inlormetl ns, in the repirl, that there was a matter too gravo even for Congress to decide, and much loo crave fur a committee, mid therefore they would not do it; and yot in nineteen days afterwards they come in wnn what is equivalent to a toini repeal o the com promise. Now, Mr. President, I want to know if that art was superseded, if that legtfdulion wan inconsistent with this, or if it (urnished any occasion when all sections j id the country ore nt peace, when everything is pro ' greaaing to ihtt salisfuciioti of nil. and n state of entire good feeling between all sections happens to exist for throwing n firebrand in here at thii time? I know nut what iho motive enn he, I enre but hit In what it is. The deleterious e Heels of this attompt lo repeal that compromise will bo foil, not only now, but long after the preaent generation ore in Iheir graves. I will not answer for the consequences of ihe legislation d Ibis day, sir; but I niiximmly desire to impure if nothing can be established in Ibis (lovernment T Is there nothing too sacred to bo overhauled for some inferable party ornlher purpose! Who was it that had tho rettloment of the Missouri compromise at tho time il was made I Was it done by stutesinon interior to Ihoso ot the present Betieia- lion f I think not; for there vvern giants ia thoso days, ns groat as (hose ot tho present, J here, sir, Hiood ,)ohn 0- Calhoun in the Cabinet, advising upon thut art. There, too, was Mr. Crawford, nnd there wns Mr. John umcy Adams. think that they might, with reanonuble propriety, bo udjuilged to comprehend tho work lliey were doing. Aenin I say to my friends from the South, who with mo linvo fought many a poliiicl battle shoulder to shoulder though far distant from each oilier who have triumphed in a mutual triumph even ilioui-kVwe failed to elec t your great chief, referring to Mr. Clay. wuen we nuempiea io elevate mm, ns ne deserved, to tho highest otlice in the world, tli.it ho, t o, look part in this compromise, and I am mortified to see that hi" orrcssors here are endeavoring to blot out the work thut his patriotism had performed. Why, sir, be is scarcely in his grave befuro another generation comes up that knows not what 1m had done, nnd sorr n even pretend that in what bo bimsolf did, in lH.r() he seemed to concede that tho compromise of K'juwasnot to bo lived up to. l wns tint h ro in IP50, but I have read tho d.-balei of that period, nnd I have endeavored to inform myself on that subject) and I tell Iho getitlomen, notwithstanding ull ihey may argue and all they m iy sny on ibis subject, there Is not it wrd, nor n syllable, thut rnes to indicate thai any one supposed that anything was donn then to overthrow the time-honored compromiso of IK-'O, Not one word, sir; but, on the contrary, if they could recur to this compromise, ihey indorsed it nnd re-iitlirmed it in 1850 beyond nil gainsaying. No doubt of it. Sir, was amazed wh n I heard the chairman of this committee iiund forth hero, and pretend that in some manner the lejiUlutlon of 1850 hail super seded Ihe compromiso of 1H20, and that tho Missouri line was blotted out, or repudiated; when, on the contrary, so careful wore lliey in all their legislation not to touch it at all, that ihuy ref. rred lo il in terms. and reconfirmed and reestablished it, I will not take up tho time of tho Senate by rend in tt lhat provision, although I hive it here, for I presume every one has Hy the resolutions annexing lexas. the mis There is nothing now to prevent us doing with ' what will minister lu the best interest of the poo i f now and hereafter.. Our forefathers expressed thoir opinion nt lo wlint was beat to be done with it. They believed it should be fenced up from the iutru sion of this 'accursed scourge of mankind, human sla very. They have done this effectually in thisTerritory.- Shall we undo llioir work T Tho southern States have had tho benefit of the Missouri Comprom ise, and I now appeal to my southern Whig frieudi whotherwe of tho North did not pledge our constituents that you were honorable men; ilia'. you would stand hy all the guarantees of the Constitution, and nil the duties which properly devolve upon you; and that, above nil, tho chivalry of the South would never brt attempted, by any fancied or teal interest, to abandon the terms of any compact, when they had received the benelit on their side, aud wheu ils terms remain to bo fulfilled hy them. This is a doctrine which I have frequently preached. My Binfizoment was very groat when I heurd that any of these gentlemen wore in council with tho enemy. I feared that something Imd taken placo which ought not lo havo itiken olaco. I felt slroiiE in heart to np- peal to them against any fancied interest which they miht conceive themselves to have, for thoir duly is plain and pul)ahlo. Did not our forefathers inuko a compart ? Did they not make it after a fearful struggle which was dungorous to this Union T I suy, was there not such a compact mudo t And iu Ino wnole historv of our leoialutioii, appeal to you, has there ever been one moro sacred or moro Dimiing upon you Havo you, southern Senators, not bad the full benelit of it T Havo you not enjoyed it now for Umlyyoars? Has any northern man stopped forward to impair your rights in thut compromise T No, sir, it is uot pretended; and now tho period is drawing near when that part of ibis great hnrgain which ia beneficial to us at ino iNorth i approacmng, mm i can upon you ns honorable men to fulfill it. Shrink not from it. Do nol tell me that your constituents will col sanclton you induing what you know to he right, I believe that your constituents are honorable men. I believe they win understand tho motives which impel you to iio your duty, notwithstanding you might have some fancied inline nco tho other way. Tho Senutor from Kentucky Mr. Dixon to'd us that thin came fn m the North, and therefore the South wero absolved from their obligation. I must say I think you unilendand well that the North know nothing about this base rouspiraey to betniy them. Wht-n did it como up 1 Did you let it go befuo tho people, lb at they miht pass upon the question 7 Why, sir, In ihu Presidential oh-ction, triumiilmiit us (he Denioo racy were, I ak any gentleman of lyi North, tupposo you had staked tho election of Mr. Pierce upon this question, how ninny votes could h" lno received iu the North T Not one. You gave us no notice of any such thing. Tho pooplo of tho N irth, oven now, do not know what uelurious piojecis are afoot here iu the Capiiol. You of iho South aro absolved, because om or two men, very lionoriiblo men, stand l-Tth hero and sny " 1 urn ready lo go in nt.d make this monstrous proposition." Sir, In ihe days of the (Involution, Ma Andre was hung by iho neck until he was dead for accepting a proposition not more bne- than this, which is a groHs betrayal of tho rights of the wh ilo North. And yettlint is the only reason wliieh ihe Senator from Kentucky gives why ho should vote tor this hill. II" wilt not piotend to tell us that lie would abrogate and violate tho great pledge Which linn been kept on iho part id Iho North, unless northern men stood iiore an thorixed, as he thinks, to roliovo lliem from that il dgo I toll him that ihey are not ntnlnrized to do iiiiy such thing. I tell him that ihoso whoso annuls ihey me, know nothing about ibis, and do not know wlmi ireiisoii to ihe rtorthiisha 'ctiitig hero. My colleague atntcd tho other day that it was n mutter of fact, which everybody knew, that the pecn liar interest which wo list I nt iho North topiovoiit slavery encroaching upon this great Territory, U, thut the moment you cover it over with pern occupy in i lie mlation of mister nnd slavo, tho free man of th North cannot go there. lie announced lhat greattruth in this body, (Jenth-men know it tuhenlruili, and they don'ii gainsay i'. (int lemon know that the lnh minded I'rtemanof the Norib, ulihoii"h not blessed wilh properly, has nevertheless n soul, nnd that tie cannot stoop to labor side by side with your miserable serf. He never has done it ho never will do it. It was an unlucky word from tho gentleman from Kentucky when be said, if ho cumiot tubor in tlmi way, let him go somewhero eUo. I that Iho democracy of iho Chairman ol the Committee on Territories ? Let him tell the yeomanry of Illinois llio hard lilted laboring man of that gieat Slate that this ia the prin eiple upon which he uc'.s; lhat tlii Territory is to bo covered over with slaves nnd wilh masters, and lint hi proud constituency aro to go out there nnd work side by side ; degrading ihoinsclvea by working upon u level wilh your misunihio slavus. i.ot him do so, and it is n declaration which I think will tingle in the ears of Democracy, mid the people w ilt come, to under stind that you are legifla iug for the privileged aristae racy of tho South, to iho exclusion of the. whole North How is lliMf We ate told lhat tho slaveholder mind go into this Territory, Why? IWause, says iho gentleman from Kentucky, il belongs to tho States, and ihoso who hold alavea have just an good a right to lira migrate into it nnd take their properly wilh them, ns i auy other person has. Now, we have seen that these two interests arn antngnnUiicnl i they cannot both stand together. If you take your alavea there, I tell you the proud laborer of the North, although ho has no capital, except his ability to draw from the enrih m support ry tionorniiio labor, win never coiiNi-m io work side by side wnh your misoniMo serl nnd slave. Then, there being mi antnontsm between these two principles, winch is greatest in numbers 7 According to the present ceilMlls, all the hluVeliolders in tho United States do not amount to lour hundred lliousiinil. What numbered' In r laborers are there wlm ought to have iho benefit of this great Territory 7 Probably fully ihirieen million nto lo bo ollset ngaiuBt about lour hundred lliotisaud. II you tuUo any con aid or a bio num ber of slaves into tins Territory, vou ns Hlerttiallv blast nnd condemn it for all tho purposs of free immigration, na ihotjeh you shouM burn it with (ire and brimxtuno, ns tfodoin nnd fi' inorruh wero once consumed. Kveiy ninii underttanils this. Immigration doe not uluve. States. Immigration rnnnnt abide there. Hut is tin re any co ihIHo- ! tionul dilliaiity upon this subj- ct ? Senator from tln Nonih sny they can go into this Territory, and toko their properly with ihem. Now why should they he let in there with what ihey cull iheir properly? Am I obliged, as a member of the (lovormueut nt iho United States, to acknowledge your title to n alavo 7 No, sir, never. He tore I would do it, I would nxpitriate myself; for I am a believer In ihe Declaration of Independence, i believe that it whp a declaration from Almighty God, lhat nil men nro created free and equal. and have tho same inherent richts. Hot, llinnh C i J . tho (Jovenimeiit of the United Stales, lo wlm h Iho long, does not anywhere compel any man to acknowl edge the title of any person lo a slave. If you own him. you own him hy virtue id' positive law in your own States, with which 1 havo nothing to do, nnd wilh which 1 will h ivo nothing to do. Mr, l tx-nr llm geri' tleinau trout Nouth Carolina Mr. Hotter talking to the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Dixon,! and I wish it to go forth lhat the gentleman from South Carolina says, why should not the fren laborer work wilh ihn slavo r In be not inn equal! Is that tho opinion id the chairman of thn committee ? Mr. Dixon. Will tho Senator allow mo to ask n vou there, if vou will meet mo upon that Usuo. If you will make it appear that your principle works better than cms, let us not only carry It into Nehrasku. but let us carry it to tho or-ds of the earth ; let us send iniiVmiaries mil to hero lci;furth the blessings of human slavery, and introduce it into countries where it does not now exist, il yua can una sucn. i am tor uoing the greatest good to mankind. Hut how ia this ? Look at the old Di minion herself It iajiot more than sixty years no, I -nily l.a the nro of one man passed away mhoo the Old Domii.i-;ii wu a head and shoulders higher, in every particular, limn nny Htn'o in this Union, not only iu the number of her population, but in hor riches and wealth, nt A hf im portance of all that pertained to hor. Why, sir, nt the litno your Constitution was framed, so apparent wns this that I-jJmund Itaiidolph. I think it wns, refused t sign the Constitution of iho United States, alleging as a reason that it wns ull wrong. Tho State ot Now York, suid he, will have as much influence in tho Senate of the United States an Virginia itself, under this Constitution. It is all wrong. Tho smull States will be on a par with tho Imp States. It ought to be grounded, either upon property, ir upon the number of whilo male inhnbituiils. That is what Im said at ihf lime, nnd that was ihe condition of tilings at tho time. Now look on old Vir ginia. Ones she not lie in the liirest part of this continent T Is there any oilier Shilo that exceeds ht-r in the forliliiy of her soil, in the s-ilubriiy of her climate, in all that pertains to tho material welfare of man? No Slate iu this Union probitbly could compnro with her. And now, during ou'B? of man, howdoesshe rank according to iho last 'iii.nua? W hy, from number one she has sunk to number4 five. What h is produced this? That grout statcsnmnshin of which the Io,ib1b so much, and upon which bo sometimes, ns think, takes airs In IhthcII ? Is tb. iho loinciplu? Have your principles ol statesmanship ndvnticeikyolt thus ? Why, sir, your atutesmawthip is Al'iicinized, ami you wont to Africanize this whole Territory. That is what you are after; and il i is right, yoti f lion Id do it. Hut, really, the policy ol tin Government now tbltors but a little from what it is in Allien, from fiuiuea to Tim bucloo. Wo are about tho sainu in principle, There they aro opposed to nny general system of inlei n;i improvement ; ihey are opoiMed In any general system of education. I do not know thut lliey carry it quim us fir as ihey do in some oilier places, where they whip und imprison women wiioumiertuko toteacii inopoor. am not quite certain that thy undertake To curry it to ihnt extent ; but, nevertheless, so fur ihey go side by side ; and when you coto to raising children for Iho market, they can vie well with each other, HtH they seek to extend llie market for human beings; nnd hciico Ihe objict of ibid hid. Their object is to on bunco und extend this market ; nnd I fuy it does not coitHiHt with the vvelturo of thU Union to do so. I say that to fill ihe intoiinr ol thU continent wilh that kind of chattels is lo td.mt tho hdro-t prospects of every man who has ever enlcrlnined Iho highest hoj csol Hie j progress ut his country, and hence it is that 1 stand hero ns one to oppose it. Vou may call mean Abolitionist if you will; I care but liuh) lor that ; for if an undying haired lo hlavery or oppression cmiHlilules an Abolitionist, 1 am lhal AhoiiiioniHt, IT man's detertuiua' ion, at all limes and all hazards, to llie last extremity, lo resist thn extension cd slavery, or nny other tyranny, constitutes an Abolitionist, J before (iud, bolu-vo myself to ho that Aholitrit.iid, Sol wnsta'ight, and I shall not probably very sunn swerve front iho faith of my forefathers in this partictilir. It is idlo to uy "Abolition" lo me. To me il is nn hoiiuiuhlo name. Not, sir, lhat 1 ever went wi'h lhat particular party; but I did not differ from tltt m on lheo pom's; but brcau?o ihey did not itiiike their opjoitioii tli ctiiul, in my judgment ; for I would havo oiie. with iIioko wit would have rendu d your iiiKiilntioiM, w heicver thy Constitution gave us a right to resell them, without eotrenchiiu.' ono hnirV breadth where wo hud )i ti;:li'. There I do Hot undertake, nnd never ahull und'-riukc, o in n h, upon them. I ml mil that iu the Stu'es you have full control over it. You may do wi;h it us s-'ems to you cord. You never found me, you never found the party to wtucli 1 belong in tho North, pretending lotto iinitniij nd verso lo your right tn mako Mich lawn nnd regnl.i lions with rcguid to ihU institution nay on please. hoped, lik other men, that vu would see llmt tin ysteiu did not wotk to your heat nitv.intuge ; weweio in hopes you would see thai a gradual stttein of eman cipation, just such as made Iho vutd ddb-reni-e be'we n the progress ol Ihe Kta'e ot Mow YmK nnd old V ir ginia, would wiiko up every sensible man to follow in ihe truck, and to do likewise. Wo hoped that, but claimed no right to interfere, Vou must do with tlm ns seems to voii gii 'd. 1 regret, Mr Pre.-ident, that this quenlion has nrhvii hero now, for I believe all will hear mo witness that I biivotjol b' en hiclioiM Jiero. Krom lb firs! day I took repudiating this obligation. Do you not soe that you aro about to bring slaverv and freedom face to face, t grapple for tho victory, and that one or the other miiKt die? I don-it know that I ought to regrot if, but I s ty to (jentlonien you are antedating the lin e when that mimt come. It has always been my opinion mil principles tn entirely m opposition to each nlner, bo utterly hosiilo ar.d irreconcilable, could never exist b-ng in tho same government. But, sir, with mti'md forbeaianco and good will, with no attempt on either sido to lakntlio udvnn'nge ol tho other, perhaps we might have lived in happiness nnd pence for many years-; hut when you cmua boldly forih tn overthrow tho time-honored guorunteo of liberty, you show us that the principles of slavery are uggreudve, incorrigibly aggressive; that they can no moro ho at ene than can ho a guilty conscience. If yon show na that aud you nro fast pointing tho n-nd lo am h o state of things hnw can it bo o'horwso than that wo must meet each othr as enemies, fighting for tho victory; for tho una or tho other of these principle must pre vail. s I tell you. sir, if you precipitate such a cor.flict as that, it will not bo liberty that will die in tho nine. tnih century. No, sir, that will uot bo the party that must finally knock under. This Is a progressive age; and if you will make this fight, you must he ready for tho consequences. I regret it. am an advocate for tho continuance of this Union; but us I have already sa;d, I do pot beliuvo this Union can survive ten years tho act of perfidy that will repudiate tho great compromie of 18'JO. j Mr. President, I do not wish to detain the Senile upon this subject. Perhaps I have said all that I have to s ty upon it. I wished to enter my protest against 'his act, I winded to wash my hands clean of this nefarious conspiracy to iramplu on tho rights of freemen, and pivo tho ascendency to slavery. I could no! justify my course to my constituents without h iving clone so to iho iiimost of my ubiliiy ; and having iciiio s, 1 shall leave this Usui lo you in say whether il is SHfo, rifiltt, and rei(innhlo for nny fancied tidvan-t'lgo, to incur such enormous perils, I ktmw gentlemen think nil calm, and I know they will preach pence. I wish there was real peuce.for I do not delight in contention. 1 have endeavored not to be u contentious man bore, I have endeavored nvon to abide by your cornptomUcs, which I did not exactly like. Hut 1 havo overlooked nno 1hing that I ought to h ivo s.iid. Tho Senator from Illinois deduces some qreiit principles from the compromises of lfl.'O. So he tuyH in but speech. Now, Irom the very nature ol (nolo comii online, it was all hot impossible thutmiy pirlic nlur principlo could bo deduced from thorn. There wero several niiltiiionisiic'iil subjects, about which thorn was dispute; nnd, indeed , there can nover be much of a principle drawn ftmn a compromiso of an- lugonisiiiMl nrincipb s. That is not the placotolixa pruiciplH. ihfrowas Ualilorm she had adopted a coiisliiiitnm, and soitlil to bo admitted into the Union. Iloro was Tex us wuhim; to havo her Itouutlury ad justed with New Mexic . Hero wns the Uis'rict ol Columbia, iu which tho North contended that slave markets should ho abolished. Perhaps ilu-n- w re no two men who agreed in all these pionohitioiis. Some were fur permitting C dilor nia to bo admitted into the Union. Tho whole North though) il ought to come iu; but did you then stand upon tho doctrine uf non-intervention? Hero was a Slate organized with a freo n risiitutioti, knocking nt your doors for adminsion. When-, thou, was this great ib ctrinc of lion inierveniiop in iho South? WherodiJ it find uny ndvoentos tin n ? Why. sir, tho State ul fi-:orgi:i, I recalled, paed li'Tresolutions, and among other points winch nut bunl would justily her in dis-i solving the Union, ono wns the admission f Culif iruia into tho Union. Then, sir, wns nonduierveniioii with a viMigetit.ee! Tho whoio South steed in opposition to lrr cn'oritig ihii Union with a freo enniOituiiiin. th ii n iii-ititt rvontion ? And yet the gentleman cay, ono grent principlo that ho deduces from tho legislation uf 185(1 is mm -intervention. S i far Irom that, I should suppobu it won intervention of the very highest character, to shut n Slate nut of lids Union, to resist hor approach hero its long as il could be done, and never to ) iuld to it till some consideration daild ho given for it. A nriiu iulo of non-inlorvention, says the jjetiilciruin, growing out of such a state of things 'is lhat .' Hut, tlx gonlteman also said lhat ho oflerrcl to extend tin: Mi.-souii Compromise lino lo tho Pacific, and ho Hiiys iho nuti slavery feeling rejected t, nnd them-hue ho is going to take vengeance upon us, and come up into tho Norlli wiifi his slavery doctrine. How was thut? Tho Mutouri Compromisa was a restriction tipm shivery; but the territories which we tit.' quired from Moxico wero already, by a decree of Mi x i co, free from slavery; therefore your lino, when yon propnmdit, was to extend slavery, not to restrict it, no ai.nu gy in ibo pi incipies m nil. tinw ro iHistcIIoiii). FB0NTIEB LIFE. frontier life!" I think I hoar my littlo readers echo, knitting ihmr brows; ' frontier I'fo I wish Fanny Fern wouldn't writo about things wo don't un derstand. SiiLJp.iso I should tell yon n story lo make you under stand it? How would yon like that? Mitty Monro's father took it into his head that Ac should like frontier life. So ho traveled hundred and hundreds of miles way ell' where ihe miu goes down, in find a place in which to settle. The nuda were rough nnd bad. 8 imotimea iMvotild bo a long while before they reached a place where truvolers coiild gfl drink nnd food ; and Mitty's little bones would acho, and she began to think with " Paddy," that iho ond of th journey was cut nil'. At hist Mr. Moore found a place to Ids mind; and ihey all hailed, with tlm old hnggago wagon, in the Woods ; and Mitty, and her little brothers mid sUters, jumped out nnd stretched their limbs, mid looked way up into iho grent tall trees, to try to see tho tops, which seemed to pierce the clouds. I hey in ;do a sort ot pic-nic dinner, out ol some pro vmioih slowed nway in iho old wagnti ; after wbn h, Mitty 'ft father nnd elder brother pulled ofl'tlu ir Con's, stripped up thtir shirt-sleeves, und went to woik to make a ''clearing," ns they culb-d it, for a log house felling the trees, und cutting unci hurntrg thounder-bruh. Il took them n long whilo to hew down tlins.i fine old trees. I'm ghul I didn't seo it done, for I shoiiM have sung out, wi'h (Jetieral Morn, Wnnilman t upsrothdt tree I 'i'ourii not h ii (;V byufihl" fur, a house, you know, can bo put up by any car-tenter wlm owns a set f tools, hut it takes iti'iny n lung year uf dew and much ino b make those- grnnd old trees tower up to heaven. However, it was all lino inn tor Rlitiy, who sat on an old slump, with her chin resting in her hands, witching to see the stout old trunk stnnd like a rock uguitmt their heavy blows; then I enn n little; then crink, OS it it were groaning with pain that Us green branches must so soon wither; then totter; then fall, cribbing to the earth, liko tho "giuut" bol -ro little ''David." Mitty liked it, though it wns rather dun genius sport ; for, if tho tree hud fallen upon her protiy I it i Jo load, stio never would rmvo toxseu imcK n-r bright curls acain. Mitty was jut tho ri-Jit sort of n Mitty lorn little fronlier girl. Shu seemed to know just when to hand her tai her iho axe, or iho hatchet, or tho pick uxe ; mid just when ihey could rest n miun'e to lake a drink ul witter, or a mo ithful nf bread nnd cheese. She didn't talk to them when Ihey wero bony, but amused her self making little h-g houses, wilh chips, for her dolly. Shi didn i scream or run, it a Mm He ,r a rabbit went over her fool ; she wns uoi all Iho lime conjuring up he irs, nnd tigers, and rarimous. or catching hold ol her father every time she heard a littlo squirrel squeal ; not the shn loved everything; and lmr soul looked out us feailejidy from her sweet blue eyes, as if pain and danger and death hud never followed tho Serpent into Eden. Now, I suppose yon nro wondering what people m buried in the woods did for stores and fdmpn. in which tn buy things, and for meeting homes and new papers.In the first place, when ihey went there, they made no llioir minds lhat silk dressen and icu-creami didn't crow on fronlier bushes ! ami Ihey soon hecamn na tohislud to find Imw nuitiy thing- there were tint weie not at all necossiry to th- ir hnppineM, which th?'V had always felt they could vol do vilhmit. They kept a cow, nnd she found l hem in milk ; ihey It opt hens, and the hens kept Mem in eggs; ihey kept a pig, mid the pig mado no ohp'ctin-i in being cut up, whenever tliov got ready to eat him; then, itiey brought im nl and tl ur oimuf-h with them, lo lint till hey could plough tho hud, and r:ii-e corn and whom of thoir own, w hich lhy intended doing as soon us llie log house should ho raided ovvr their hem. a. Ull, Ihey got on luinoiisly. .It was good, healthy work, this digging, nnd hewing, and ploughing. It mudo iho muscles on i li i r nrmi itnlid out liko whip cords; it bronzed llioir pate faces, nnd made their eyes bright, and gave thorn a good appmile lor their bread and milk; and when lliey win. to bed, they didn't Htop to see if tho seam ot the sheet was exactly in th" mmdlo, or lo count the tenlbeis in ino pillows turner iheir heads. I hey bad neighbors ( IV in tlifiWont manner exceedingly WlWntivu to men of ihe North, j stricted wluvery, nid tho other extended slavery. What question? Mr. Wade. Huller. Air. Dixon, Vos, sir; and your associate, too, Mr, souri compromise line was alluded to, and in terms imintaiiied. The provision was, that in tho territory above 6hv ju inero snouiii no neitucr siavory nor in voluntary servitude, except for the commission nf crime. Those reB-lutions expressly relerred to the line of 3C 30 as the Missouri compromise Hue. Then to make assurance doubly stiro, in the compromise bill organising New Mexico, lhat legislation is referred to, audit is said thoro shall be nothing sn construed as to impair that clause. So far, then, from overturn- inn it, or superseding It in any possible way, they most deliberately turn iheir attention to it, and Jor fear any construction of the kind might bo drawn, such as the Senator now sees fit to draw, ihey mado a stern provision against it. Hut, sir, i need not rotor further lolhn speech ot the Senator from Illinois. My Colleague Mr. Chase so entirely pulverized lhat speech that ihero is not enough or It left upon which n man can possibly hang an idea, i Laughter, j in I act, thorn was noth-ing to begin with) and surely there is nothing left of it. It was a baro afterthought, permit me to say. After tho report of ihe committee had been made, nnd tho bill had been altered, it was necensary to get up soino other reason or pruloxt than was set forth in tho report, in order to show why it was proposed to repeal tho Missouri Compromiso. I do not like to bo uncharitable I do not liko lo be compelled to nrgtio in lhat way ; but when 1 aoe these crooked tracks, what inference can I drawl Most assuredly, that tho commiiteo had no determinate, settled pur-mso is Iu the necessity or altering this compromise when they first reported. They had not good and sulllcient roason to pro peso a repeal of it; lor if they had they would have snid su at once. Now. bow are we to view this matter? Can wo viow it in any other ngniT Tho Senator, if 1 nndertood tnin. suid ho was n believer in the Declaration of Independence, and lo the douti iitvsuf fbid, wbieh deelnre that till men are equal. Ho-s tho (senator mean that the uve is equal lo thoso freo laborers that Im speaks uf in ilio norm t Mr. Wado. fin on. Mr. Dixon. I desire him to nnswer that qnci tion. Mr. Wndo, Certainly; certainly. The slave, hi my indgmrnt, ii eemul to anybody else, but ia degraded hy ihe tiPlurtous acta and seiiinnois oi too musier, wnn couiuoIb him, by opiu force and without right, to serve nun an n . J hut, sir. is my iiocinue. vtimn yon sneak of equality before tho law, or equality before llio Almighty God, I do imt suppose you addressing Mr. Dixon stand one whit higlmr thun iho meancd slave you havo. That is my judgment, ami probably it is the judgment that you will nnd en land iu the Inst day, though you will not understand It before. Mr. Dixon. Will iho Senator allow mo tn mk another quotdiou ? Mr. Wade, Yes, air; us m uy ns you plrrtsti. Mr. Dixon. D ies llio Senator consider tlm fine negroes in bis Stn'o na equal to the Iron while peo ple I i Mr. Wade. Yes. Why not equal? !). ih.y not all havo their lifo from Almighty (hl: tin not they hold it of his tenure? When you Hpeuk nf wen th, riches, and inlluencc if t at is what you menu they aro generally poor, without influence, peilctpsdenpincd nmong na as well as wilh you ; but thut docs not pre vent that equality id which l apeak, t say, in the langungo of iho Declaration nf Independence, that they wero 11 created equal," m il you have trampled ilium under tout, and made r em apparently unequal by your own wrong. That is all Ihero ia of it. That is my doctrine. 1 do not go into tho States, be it known; I never went there to ak nny questions nt you; but I beliovo your huiidatinii is alt wrong, and as wrong for you, even, as it is for your slaves; lor when 1 coutrust tho prosperity ol tho Nlntes wliuro this wrong and outrage ia indulged in with tho proa pertty oi those where the tree unit ,uist principles ol tho North prevail, what I the mauileslation ol these p. i, ipii-a upon the appmeut weihtio tif the societies in which they prevail ? This is n question which, if it wero not involved in this conlrovery, I should not argue nt all; for I do not wish to do nnyihing which will excite ill feeling here; but I cannot shrink from anything that Is pertinent to the issue. The question is whether, in that fair field, Inrgo ai a continent, wo shall now plant human slavery ) or whether wn shall leave it as our forefathers left il loured out forever hereafter. That brings up the whole question. If slavery is rigui u u comports with the host interests ,... r - 7 J " nere ia territory large as an empire; as large, i B vuiu(-i won mis urm luii-inm meaning ot the Constitution lDrespeclto the Wal h.li. a. .11 ih. r ri..a. tnn..i, i u of mankind, alaverv unoueaiionablv ahonhl be fnaterod poinla in dispute," M Mture( n , beautiful u tho garden of Qod.l"oouragetlf and upheld by our legislation. I am with were urged ution ns dav niter ilitV. week alter Week. and mmiih nfit-r month, well ctilculaitd lo stir the, blood of a northern man, und ye- I sut m der it. Whilo it was a matter iu ihe absimrt, 1 cared nothing about it. Your finality resolutions that wero ilehuud hero so long, all that you could sny hero or eUewhere, yoni-ilolerminatioiis to reniit all ngi'atioii nf this subject never stirred me to oppoiiim ; but when you comu in bore, by law attempt ing tn legalize fdnwry In half neon tiueiit und to hi ing il into thin Union in ifmt way, and when, iu doing ho, yon nro guilty of iho reuleiil perfidy you can commit, 1 must enu-r my iiidinnnt protest against it. St, what will bo iho ctmscqiicncn of pas-dug this hill? Dot a iei uny inmi see that il lint effect will bo in render all luturn compromi-ei ubxo-lutely ridtciiloiH and mipotohh ? for if one us sob-inly entered in'o a ihi. dm Imlhhilly lived up tons llus, shall bo thus wtititotily broken unwn, Imw, when matter nl dillerenro uijuiii ariiea between 1H, khall we iromiiromino it? Shn! wet haveany Im h iu en h other? No, sir; no. Where isotir cuinproiiiiseof 1850f Why it ia jmtfis i-tlricitlally gunou the compromise, you now seek to repeal. 'I hey both stand together- One guarantees Iho other. They nro linked together by the sumo leiM.dtt'iou. To reoiidiatooiio M to repudiate bulb. And do you believe, sir, that wo shall keep ntir li-niiln oil' thut portion of tho leinlalion id' Ili.'iO iijim which iho Mouth now relies as giving an equal c hauco lor lavtiry In New Mexico und Uluh, nnd wlm h is exceed ngly C'lh'hfMYn in the Nnrdi, as that wns ftee country wheu wo conquered it? Suppose a prodigoiis okeilo-mont p'OvndoM till iho northern tStute.-. Surposo they como in hero to sny to the S itrh l '' You h ivo led the way in repudiating comptouiises, and, as ill nro is no further ti unt to bo ro, on d in one sect inn uf tho conn try or tho other, wo aternly demand a repeal of all those laws which are for your benelit, nsyon huvn g mo foreuunt iu lining iiwiiy with that pnriioti which were made lor lis." What shall iheo bo caul f What plea cut) you put into me, w hen I come Jim- hacked by my coiixlitiiefits, demanding Unit now, inanmucli as the South havo como up nsotio matt, and tmv taken awuy-all tho guarnuleea cm which wo nnd our fore-lit I he-ra re lied lo guard thu gieat domain n;jaiu t Iho eiicrout h-men I s of (dtiverv, I'lu-mtich nn it b i been ruihlensly iruuided under loot by n few treacherous nifii not consulting with iheir cimlitiims, thai you m)iu!I repeal all the co opromiso laws, iho fugitive- slavo law inehi detl, wllitll yll hold of Coti'equeiico lo )OuF llu any northern man oil Wed such u proposition T 1 know ynti complsiui d lhat wn do not submit wilh ne much resignation to ynur fitgiiive bill ni V'-tl would bo glml to tco. Well, sir, we do nut. 1 agree lo lhat. Why down nut? It ii boeutiHo tho niiriitrit mind, imbued with the principles of libeity, is unable to see the force of your claim ami till to th" slnvo. I (jrmit that llio Constitution of the dried States enhtnin what yon call a compromise; but it is rcnrcoly moronacred limn tho ono ut.der coiisiderali u. H luc ua the incliualioiis of tbo pi-itk v.lll im, o rr 11 lli. ir belings will go. yon havo a faithful execution of lhat law; but if you demand lhat against which human nature itselt revolts, you mud take it wi'h am Ii objections ns nnluiuiiy will nriso. In general your I iw lina beep enforced ; 1 but what will bo mid when you have thrown down the gauntlet on tho other aide, and (old 11a that cmpro rnUon lor our our bon lit mean nothing ut all ? Have you not got now throe uluvo Siatei out of tho I,onii-iiua purchase nearly us largo ns tho rest ul that territory, ami nre yon not enjoying it ? Has any man from iht) North ever auid il nliould bo taken from you f No, air) not a liqt of it, not a word of it. Is not freedom lo bo considered us well as slavery? Hut, sir, ( would rather put this question nn hroHder priiiciplt-s than theno compacts, sacred as they nro, and from which im man who violates them can eKcape with honor. However, ns I havo intimated nlrnnly, this is a great question ol human rights. Now, if there is nut really any dillWonco between liburiy and slavery, then all tint our hi then havo done; nil thai the IWIma'ioti of Independence Ins set fnrihj nil the U. slut ion in 1-iiiular.il und in Ihis country to further nnd gunrunlee llio principles of human liberty, me a mere nullity, tiinl on;-lit not to Im lived up to. This may be so, but wo have, hi'cil taught dill'er. ully , (ttmtlcmcn h ivn nrjMii'd ibis question na though it wero n matter of entire iuditl'eroneet whether the con- 11 nent ja to In overrun with shivery, or whether it is to bo settUd by Ireemen. I know lhat those who hold alavea may have an interest in this qnesimn but when V"U cmmilt ibis matter in tbi ht o States or commuuiiies, theio can ho hut one answer to it. It (hero ia any other, ns I smd beloto, it both aro to stand and faro alike, then human liberty is a humbug, and tyranny might to be llio order 01 1110 day. Hut, Mr. President, thi isahn nil exceedingly dangerous mio. I know tho Senator from Kentuiky snid ho did not think there would be very much nf a storm alter nil. Me wns uf opini u that iho northern mind would immediately lie dow n under il, that the North would do an ihey have I'm nm nily done, submit to it, nuti finally becomo inddtWi nt iu regnrd lo it. Hut 1 tell tho gen tleman Unit I scm indicaiioiis entirely adverse to lhat, sen it cloud, a Utile bigger now tbnn a man's hand, gathering in tho nortn, and In the wost, and all nrouml. nod anon iho whole northern heavens will ho lighted upwHliahrn that you cannot quench. 1 ho indica tions ot It nro rilu now in ine in nveus, nmi any man who is not blind can see It. There, nro meetings ol tlm peoplo in all quarters; thny express Iheir alarm, their dismny, their horror nt iho proposition which has boeit made here. You cannot make them believe that the thing is seriously contemplated here. How Is it ? Vou of the Stmlh, alt of you, propose to go for por time ; then evening came on, dark and chilly, and Desire's lips grew paler evory miuulo: still, no idings yot of the boy. Through tho long night alio listened Untuned listened, still every gust of wind made her ttembto liko tho leaves. Morning dawned, noon came again. then uiht. Then, indeed, at last they heard the trump nf heavy feet. Deeiro sprang from her chair, nnd run toward the dour, then back again to her sent, with her hands pressed tightly on her heart ; then back to ibo door.ns if hr straining ev could fierce tho darkness. It did, (iud pity her! Whit did she see? Her little Willie, quite dead, lying on a Idler, carried by Mr. Mooro and Orphy. Poor littlo Wiilio ! Thov had tracked hmi to an old (dimity, in tho wood., where ho had gathered some dry leaves and slept. Thoro wns the mark ol his 111110 lor 111 upon iho loaves. Thmithov tracked him out into tho woods, along, farther than nno would havo thought his little feet could have curried mm ; and they found him, with hia little head leaning ag-iiust a tree, qtiito .ied irotn exhaustion and hunger. Poor Di sire I There wasn't ono of those nice old farmers who woul iu't havo given his 'arm In bring Ih it little sleeper back to lifti. They took bis nio'h or' cold hands in theirs, nod chafed them, and bathed her temples, ond wiqit(trong men ns they were) to think of ihe hitter waking she, would havo. Hut God wua merciful ; she never did wttke in (hit world. In Heaven she found her boy. Little Fern for I army1 9 Little Friends. ENGLISH NOTABILITIES. Krom ft race (ireen wood's interesting bonk of a lour Ihioiipli Europe, wo extract the following account of a grand party g ven by llio Myor of fjemion, for llio sake of tlm description of a number of tho distin-t! u itlipd poisnnoges in attendance: On tho night uf iho Mth tlmro came ohFa grnnd con-vemn zimr ol tho Mant-ion Iloti'o which wo attended. Them hud ben nearly iwo lhnuatid invitations issued. There wero present, I suppose, at least fifteen hundred people ; yet nono of iho rooms except il bo the Hiipper room were uncomfortably crowded. Tho Lonl Mayor nnd the I.ndy Mayoress received thoir guests wiili a simple cotdiality, which reminded mo of the manner in which our I'n nid-nt and his family receive. Indeed, iho wholo otl'iir, but for tho gorgeous, qnatnl, old timo livery ul tho servants, would havo seemed very like u h-vee at the White House. Hut never yot have so mmiy dlflint-'uished people come together at any one gathering in America. We early took a pofiiioii mar tho Lord Mayor and tho Lady Mnyorom, where wo could Imvo a good view of the notttbdiiics us they wero announced and preset) 'oil. Sir Charles Emiluko nnd Sir Edward Landseer entered nearly nt the same liiue. They aro both short and stout, tho latter especially so, yot apparently quick lo unrvniiMies in bin movement, us he entered llio drawing room with a sort of a plunge, as though violently prop- lied. A striking contrast was presented by Mis Siri. klatid nnd Mim Purdoe; the former, in her towering figure, Inrmnl manner, and solemn tones reproducing much of iho antique alutelincs of thn early 'Queen;" iho latter, though past the first blossom of joudi, still plump ond pretty, cheerful, chatty, and clurniiug TVro was Mary Hnwitt, wilh hor sympathetic face, a clow wi'h kindly aui nation, and her lovely daughter, w ho, benidc being an artist of raro pnctio genius, line lately l iken to mithorahip, nnd produced a very sue-crstul bonk. There was (ienrgn Crinkslmnk.a rather ei ceutiie. individual, with long, straggling locks; ond Martin Ttipper, h ruddy ami smilingfrni.k and warmhearted, 111 ever ; and Dr Howiiug. who bus just returned from China, a tall, thin man in --pectacles, who was soon surrounded by a crowd of Itiends, to whom ho tHlkeil in a merry, nnirnntod maimer, not nt all in tho SHVfHiich stylo. Then there was Kisk Allah, secretary of the TurkMi omhussy, nhandsomo youugOrielb lal who is a good deal lionized jut now, on account nf a very clever bunk ho has lut ly writteu in Ertglish. Tin ro wit Albert Smith, who Hung his j"kes ri; lit and hit att ho piihsed through tho crowd, and If It a wake, ol laiighler behind htiu ; Charles Mackuy, the poet of the p-op,iho win 1.' nulled and true-hearted man; nod Mary Cowden Clurk, of Shaksperiati famo. Mortuftho foreign ministers were present, and n number of llio highest nobility. Tlm Duchess of Sutherland cam? witii her son-iu law, tho young Duke nl Argyle, She was dressed simply, in whilo, wilh a few flowt-ra nt thn buck uf her hair, and a single diamond orimtmMit, throbbing liko a alar upon hor forehead. Hit fJruio is a younger but a less bountiful woman l.reciion); somo four miles away ) simio two; home lnnlI j ox,tect, d to sue. Her beauty of face is by no would bo suid of mo if I should undertulto to deduce a ptim iplo from tho action nf Congress in 1050 in re spt el to the District nt Coltimbiu? Ymi abidihed thi mnrket lor slaves here, nnd declared lhat ihey should i.ot be brought into tho District for stile. Then I might .iay, on tho gentleman's doctrine, that yoti had settled a great principlo; that vou should not havo slave- 111111 ki t any where e.lne, ntld it would lie just a s logical j na tho priucipb a which tho pentlenum drdurna from I somo other of those compromiso nioaHiirea. The furl wo, that there wi re n grent tunny re il or f'meied interests antagotiistical tn each oilier; unci whilo baldly nuy man ngroed as to llie settlement of them ull, Ihey got together, na men settle controversies they under look to arbitrate and to compromise. Although they did not agree to nny one thing iu particular, ihey snid, wo will tnko linao memoir en ns n whole ; ihey aro tin best we can do, ami therefore wo will submit lo 1 1 mm ; ami having submitted, we will abido by them. 1 bo idea ida compromiso ot course proiuppntea llmt iho disputing parlies bnvn nut got all that Ihey were Ciuiiondiiig for. How then can you deduce principles from such a slato nf things as lh,P? No mm thought of doing il, but ono who was contending for the overthrow of even tins last compromise, without giving any rennou why he had dune ii; for I am mm if there was a ronton adequate to such nil exigency as thin, it would be onsy lo state it on paper omiherwise; but it h is not becnsluled. Mr. I'reoident, I will not prolong this discussion In tny desultory way 1 have Said all, and moro than all that I intended lo say, I am suiinlied wi'h having en- lerod my pmiest ngiiinst this mencure. If gentlemen adept it, i ey must take it with all its perils, I truit freedom will ultimately oomo out of tho conllict iri-uiuphmiily. SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. Pit rsKNT Chief Just ico Cor win and Judgea Tt aiiti.ky, TuuitMSN, lUriNK.r and Cai.ovvki.i.. liepord hir the O. H Jetjrnsl by ft. II. Wnrdnn, Olllrlal H.'n'r. February 25, . Dc. Chaff aiul llitmnrd v. Jugltt A Young Petition in error. lUnTt.r.T J. announced ihe judgment, reaanni to be hereafter written out. Petition dismissed. Moore v. Stale. Error to Trumbull county. Oalovvrm. J. announced tho judgment of a majority nf ihe judges their roaintis for tho opinion tit be hero niter wrhien out. IUnnkt .1. dissented. Judgment ullirmed, Unelinetiatn v. MeCraeken. Error. Cai.dwi.m, ,1. announced tho judgment of the Court the reason ul llie lJ..url to lie herrnlter written out. Judgment revcr cd, at d rnuso remanded for proper puig men. I.cttce vj'&'ifiirev. Tol. Error, C ai.PWM.I. .1. ft'itiounced the judgment tin' rena-us to bo beretdi'T wrillen out. Judgment ntlitineil ,Jud"o niNnr.y did not sit at the heuring tf this ease, having been of cuiinm I. .angky v. Totrnnf Ciittfwnlit. Error. n vmi.Ky J. nmiimiieed lie- jud:ruiiMit llio reanmis to bo lieteuiter wriltnn out. Judgment iillirnnd. Trmtctt ff Ctttahopa Fulls Ri al Estate Aitociation v, Cnifaftofja FiiH Ileal Kstate Amociatfan Hill ( revtovv. 1. Heir. Bpeetivo Iuas that violated 110 principle nl natural juiice, but that on ihe coutrurv were in fur- iherancct of cniii'y nnd good moral, were not forbid den by lb" constitution of IRlhL The cases following nro npprnvot and billowed: Lewis, trustee nt M ctiauics und I ruder Hank v. Mi-Kiviu, lb U. il .11 ; lohmmn v. Heulley, Hit). . 07. 11 ,i th..l. n.o ,v v. lb n-tley, I Ohi.i Sbito'K. 80 nnd Kearney v. Huiile. I Ohm Stale U. 373. So also Miller v. Ai h on. dnmt'-d nt iho present term. U. The act, entitled "an act to oiovi.le for the set dement of iho Htlnts of ihn Coynheg tails Heal tntuin nsmi miinti,' ( n u, f, , o;i) (i, not t-nn'rav th coT.htitulton of 1H0'. Decree r verged. Mediae v. State. WntU IUvmct .1. delivered an npinii.11 min'ainlog t1:o Master' liepnrt. Cohvvin 0. J. The rule dMd ng iho Docket into circuits fur oral argument, is ri'iciuded ; nnd, htvo. been found by experience to be 1111 nnvnmont In the court nr-d llio prof, soion, il wi.l not b ronewi d. Tho Court adjourned lu tlm lirat Momlny of May, I Our Wnhiugtoi conospimdeoen nivra us to under stand that the Irculy-breaki r of Congress nro begin ning to hear from Ihe people, nnd hearing, tn grow weak in the knees. Mr. Douglas has not forced his bill th run ih tho Setin'o quite a rapidly ni tin hoped, and bis mt; ifc main bus 1 hnngrd to a tnuihlcitouiu und dilatory warluro, with n rapidly increasing tiro in ihe rear. Southern members lorced to ni l in lavor of the measure, because it looks townrd slavery, nlthotih it bold out 110 real promUo nf extrnsion, and Isnmitioiis enough uf future nitatton, have no feelings nf friend ship Inward the mover, and win drop nun, ni;e an in. leetion, an somi as ii is oil their handa, if not betnro, I'ho popular video of tho North, coming iu with a roar daily swelling hie hor and higher, will have Us ell upon tho President, as well na upon thn member from Appeal fioin Huatd of Public six; and some eight. Not ciy in lihb irs who shut theinselvi a up in llu ir great jiils of house, and would not rnro if a henrto stood befuro your door ov ry day in iho year. No, indeed I They worn warm henrb d country folks, -with bear to a big as iheir pumplJiis If you worn out of meal, or moliiNme or mi gar, or tea. you wero welcome lo borrow of them till you ci uld spue titnn to send to "tho settlement" h-r Sotuo. That's tho way they lived. The men folks had loo many IteeB tn cut down lo keep tickling up iho old ox'n every five minute, and go "gco hawing'' over to ihe stores, evety time the women wauled nn Indi in cake. N't; they borrowed of cat h other (ill sumo body had time to go lo the store nr mill ; nnd then, whoever went, took all llu ir errand nod did ihetn np ill n biiicli, to save tune. liny went hy iho "gnldn rul." People who live in tho wn ds, where tho In e nro all llio time whi'.p' ring of (! ai, and tho Mule bird Nieging ol Mim, don t Icel Iit;o being q inrrelsomo ami disobliging, m;d ugly; nn. ihey leave that tn Iho city people, who livo in such a whirl tint th ) never m-member ihey have n soul till Death come ufter it. Well, as I wns paying, tin y helped one nnoiher. Orphy Smith, Mr. Moore's next neighbor, to .k Ids bg ef eoiuoned.iy, to cany il to mill Mitly was very gli,tl, bocnusn ihey had been nut nf nie;.l smne day. and sho was THllier tired nf jin'iitnea. So she made up her mind, and her mouth, th it when Orphy came back, 1 ihey would all havo " a prima supper.'' Hut Orphy didn't come tvk that night, or iho next mornit.g, either ; but, luto llie next nl'enioon, he came crnwling back, with the meal, aud told them that " he should have been hnine with it long uo, if lhat pcky wheel hadn't como oil' hi wagon, nnd il hadn't taken am-h a powerful I 'tig time t0 hlHcksuiilh il on r.gain.'1 How glud liille Mitly wa to see thut bug of meal! nnd what a nice time sho bud nf it lhat night, silting on a little ciickut hefi-ro n blueing hickory tiro, and eating the buttered cakes lhat her mm her banded down to tier from the tanlo. till, yen city children coulilo t gt I up such a frontier appetite for your lricuHee, hiiI mince ptes. 11 you 11 nil a inminio. " They didn t II tve uny newspapers there." Ah ! lliem mi havo me ! More ep cittlly as I h id as lief go without my break f.it ns wi bout my news paper; but, then, lean tell you, that there were ihings all the time huppemng tboie ou tun irnntn-r, thai many a newspaper edit r woiil I hive given his ndssoia nod easy chair In nave got li tia ot, lr bi paper. 1 II lel you about "otno. Ono night Mitty h,y in her little bed of straw and husks, alnmst n-h-ep, when she heard her father u4 ihe door, singing nt, "Hall 0-0 1 I -a 1 1 o-o I" ns loud as ever lie coiiid i mul then n luint voice way 1 fl", caught it up, nnd Ilu-n eehiH-d b ii k, " II it I I 0-0 ! h-a I 1 n !" Then Mitly' father lii n gieal bright torch, nnd moved i', Il tmirtg, buck and forth b. fore ihe door ; ami in aliith1 while a poor, woaty, liiyfib neil imveier, who hud got Inst in llio ilaik wnnds, heard ihe voice that had answered his, nnd saw, by Ihn torch, where In cumo lo find Mr. Moore; and in leu than nn bur after, bo v us Mioring nwny under Mr. M tore'n root, wilh u good, comfortable supper toe Iud under h'n 1 ilt, vvliilo llio bear had to go without any. Hears t Cerudnly I 1 didn't menli n ihe genib rm 11 be I me, fur fear it would make your mother ironhle when it ram your bed lime ; but, nevertheless, ji is a iiaht d lad tbm bears livo on the Irotiiler. t ineiluy a woman cnmo into Mr. Moore's crying ami "t dtinon" in a most piiilul manner, Mii'y couldn't iiniletst.iiid (llm wniniiu sdiln d so m:.ch) what it vV'is ah abi-u' ; but sho comdudul lhat something sp" i ll WHltoniy, became her Mini her lei her biovv 11 hi cut all burn to a crisp in tlioovev, while sho wan listeuo"! 10 her Then her mother ran out in the com field, with lo-r cap sitings nil Hying, alter bar fmlici ; uud Mr. Mourn dropp d his hoe, mil to iho house mid caught up a great tin horn, mid sin d at ihodeor, blow in;' wiih ull bis might; " fun boo loo boo Ino hi to;" nod then Orphy S nidi, th mul ink-lib r, oaiifht tin his h ro, mid blew, ten ; and tb"ii iho next, und the next; mid, iu n very h rt lime, nil ihe mdh b us knew lhat Mr. Mooro'waiitnl lliem in come io his log hotio, just r futtt as Iheir h'-r-' a' leg could j carry them S-i, iu th y ll eked Orphy R oldi, and Seih Jmn s, , and 1'eio l'ariter, an I Jtwan .l-o.ki.n, and t''; h KHet , and n wlndn limit 111 re ; and Milly's ft'lo r told ilkni, that Diir. DibdenVchitd (wln-o fnh-r hid b. en killed by ilio Indians) wns hit in thn w.x d-; and llmt wns rrjoKgfc to say; every imui nl tln ui started oil through ilio door, in it bo had b 'en tdmt out of a pq jm, in help find tlm child. Certainly; lidn'l I tell yoti lhal 'farmrrthnd htattsV IVlieii a child geiH lost In iho cilv, too tat old town cri'-r (it bo is paid for il) "take hn time" and his bell let crawl l h rough iho altee), whihing mi! slcepny C-h-i-l- l l-i -f-i ;" mul iho city folks p: about a- mm h at'enii'iu lo il. nt il you bud b id di it a six days' ItiKcn h id presumptiiimttly stepped into a vviiih tub. Ymt didn't catch Mm nice, big hearted farmers net ing that wnv ; tin y didn't s iy it h imn 1 f th- ir hu Miners, thut their run winded lineitiff, mid their Iny tvuntcd stHc-tiug, nnd their uiendow wanted plnugh ing! Thn m, lit id that poor weeping timlln r wa 'Miough. They atarti'd right olVin cionp uiies, lo Kcmir the wood for the p. J'"'", l'"t boy, Imping lo find him before nighlbtl! Cm There sat poor IV-fW, in tho chimney corner, sob bing ami ringing her hands, aud roekmg bcr body lo nnd fro. Sho wouldn't rut, tlmiigh good, kind, ue.lh erly Mrs. Moore, b iked, on purpose fir In r, some of hr most tempting cake ; sho wouldn't drink, tliMtih Mrs. Moore handed her a tdro cup of tea Sho tlid nothing but cry lit lo break In-r tmurl t while sensible little Mtlty whispered to her mother lo knnw"d she ihe North; and wo should not be surprised within n 1 hadn't better go out of tlm way, lor fearttin si;htul few days, to disrover that (leu. Pierce has never boon I her, snto In her mothm's log houe, tiiirlit make poor in favor of tho bill, or given the measure anv ojicnnr Desire cry the harder." agetnent whatever. Ct. Com, ' Dinner lime name; but the men didn't come back. tnemts reguUrand porfeel, and she is very stout; but the tout ensemble ia miking and imposing in the highest tlegreo. She has a gracious but a most regular ex pres-hi-11, mul in her manner nnd bearing there is a wonderful union of pride and soft liens, uf a bit Hi nets and graco. Altog'-lhcr tvho is a grand looking woman, for whom noma high title wmld hnvo been invented had she heeti born in a republic so royal, to absolutely imperial, is her prenei.ee. Tho Dulio of Atgyle in a small, delicato, red haired young man, r deemed In m plninticss and insignifi-cauee, Mvetv hy tho side nf his inajrBlic mollier-Iu law, by an cxprrstion of great cleverness und refinement. o had lino music Ihronghout the evening, and dan cing during tho latter part; but tho chief plea uro whs, ol course, in converioitiuii. Altogether, It was a hnlliiiut and ile!ighllul entertainment a golden oc-eiihiou, to ho long nuti plennantly retnembored. Sketch of f(ev. Pldibp Ostc b, prepared by Hon. Jo n M'Lean, L. 1 l., Jndi.e ol Supremo Court of th" I'lided Slates; Ciiieitniaii ; publi-hed at Sworm-Medl tSt Co'., for tho M, IL Chute h, Ihe Western Hook Concern, cnr. id" 8'h und Main streets. It can bo had of J M. Au.lin, or of P. U Swing, Esq., of Hatavin. Th.'Mihjict uf lhi tikeleh wns iho Anci'Ntnrof lh fiat eh Family of ibis county. Ho was one of the first 1'iuiiileis ot M-ili diin in Nonh Aiiienrn, and ono of its Pioneer Mn i-ters in llio We.d. Ho was the companion of Ceko nnd Athury wns a member uf the first C.pulereiii:n ever held in America und the first regular itinerant Minister w ho leveled in ihe State of New Jers-y ; for several year bo 1 raveled extensively through Maryland, Virginia, Now Jersey and Pennsyl-vania.atiecesstnlly disseminating the principle of Christianity, und at limes railed upon to sutler severe persecution : ul one time he was beaten, again be was covered with tar, and ngain waylaid for tho purpose of being killed. In tno Fait of 17!8 he, in Oempany with Judge Hanson nnd James Smith, emigrated to ilk N"ftti Wes'eni Territory and seitled on ihe farm. upon which ihe Rev. (ieo. Catch now resides; upon tho establishment of Clermont county, ho was appointed ouo uf iho Jtiotice of ll:o Ponce for the county. Ho wns n member of tho Convention which formed Iho tirl Constitution uf tho Slate, and in iho Spring nf lRli;i, ho wns elected ono of lht AsBiiciato Judge for tho county, iu whii h capacity ho served the conn ly fur M year. As Judge, h seemed Dot only to hav n regard fur the Administration of tho laws, hut wua anxious for tint reformation of the lives of thoso who had been cuil iy uf their violation. In iho case of Ciatk ami Kurd, who many uf our old citizens will remember, wmo convicted of crime and sentenced to receive 3 Inches each, after this barbtrott sonteuro hud Icon carried into execution. Judge 0:i!ch visited the prisoner in jail, ami otiito.'V-red so firn possible, to alleviate their suU'eiing and exhorted them to ii lormiloir live by turning from tho error of their ways, and nfo-r prnymg with ti cm, he lot them deeply infected. Wo have not space for a mum extended notice but wo would say lo nil .v hu fuel nn interest in the emlv history of iho Church in America, nnd h trai ler uf a iruly pmiis nivi, Ibey will find lid to hi'4i very valuable b ek, nod ono whii b will bo read wiOi interest by all. For s ilo at iho Methodist Hook Concern, Cincinnati; by Itov. J, M Austin and H- nll, of this place, mid by ilnt traveling IV achi r generally. Price 10 rt. t 'ti rtnnnt Courtrr. Satisvii n w irtt rtu llvii. Lvvyora frequnmly subject person who 1 fi'er ihemsi lv s for bail tn unnecessary badgering. A cisn nl itds kind occurred in tin Superior Court. Chambers, New Vork, not long ago. (rid Mr. Jt cop Atirnn s, a man worth a quar tt r nf a million uf mom y, eirer-d himself bail torn Jew lor dealt r. wlm h ul been arrested utidenhe Siil-well net. Tint nmoiinl nf bail rccniircd wns 1 500. Counsel " hit does your properly runsini of, Mr. Abr-ims V1 Ab, 'im S;r, nut willing to a won r that I am worth more than 1 1 5tn, over and abovo all. I think hi hoimr, tho Jn Ige, will It'll you that that is sutlt-eient with' ut going iett particulars." Conns. I 'No, sir, it is hot sulliriciit. We havo n rif lit to know wh it this property is." Abr.uns ' Very well, sir, I've got your own bond -nid mortgafo 011 the house you livo in, for eight ilmuniid dollars, and I roimider it Wot th full the amount of iho bail " I Mm h lauglilt r. In which llie counsel joined.' Counsel" l e do not jh In ask any moro question, Mr Ahrume. Tniho Judgo. U'u nro saltslied wilh the bail, your honor." Tin n truo it.riibuit. Mr. Abrnmshad just tnken dm b md mid mortg.i:1, Irom an Intiirancc Company, who wanted tho cah lor it. Tiik Km'kctio D. iMintAi -. Slioald thomrmber nf Cnngiie.4 hunt ihe M.ive S -ites Vtde Ullltl illiollsly for be N'biaK i Hill in tho Hon-o, nnd it is fentod that lliey will, it w ill require the vnli a i f but tii Northern DoughUees to pis lie bill in n full Session. Tho Wiediingteii Correspondent nl tli Couritr and F.n iuiier, writes th it the following vote aro expected to ho ebi'iin d Irmn ilm Free Sbil a : Now Hampshire 2, Penntvlvanii 10, Indiana i. Michigan I, New Vork-i, " Uhio:l, lllnmi 1, Iiivvtt.niel Cd'tTtiia '2, This estimate gives six moro voti ihiin requirtdto pass the leitnigo nil l-'remli ui ami Freo Men Cltv. Herald, Scrr-ncisM.-Secptieim is ihe inotlier of credulity ; the nbandonmeiit ut sotier rnnmiai irotn, to llie em Lrtcrtimd indubvn.'e of unnumbered extravagant absurdities; ihe loosing of a frail b irk fioin ils mooring in tho lempe.iKiiied harbor of safety, to the perilous dangers and stnrm of the billowy ocean of uncertainly, where ilmbt niter doubt, liko rolling surges, bears it away far from the light-bouo id mason and passing the last lingeiin't glimmer ofeternal truth is soon lost in the mielstmm of perdition. Itffo '

gj COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1854. NUMBER 31. VOLUME XLIV. lUtcklu l)ia 0tatt Journal 18 rCBLISIIID AT COLDUDUI ITIBT TOT8DAY UORN1NO, rouMU loaBotM, bmh and run ruin bitaafci or m.i. TERM in flAvwi .-In Columbus, M.00 . y4T bvoj.ll, 160; elub. of fbux ud upwd., $l'Jo; of ttuuuluf- nnl, (100. TUB DAILY JOUIINAI, Mirnlihed to cltj iutocriber, at M 00, uid bjr mull ftt Wi.nu. year. ' THIS IKl-tt tfcliLV JOURNAL It NJt Jr. KATES 0EADVERTI8INQ IN TIIE WEEKLY JOURNAL iiiiiiiiUiiiii Se Sa 0e eiSo So oi So liqum, 60 761 001 261 763 36 8 60 4 00 6 00 6 608 00 2 Muaras, 736264 00 6 00 6 00 8 00 12. 16. 1 i ' 1 1 1 squam, 1001763 368 604 606 00.6 609 0011. 17. 23 1 1 1 1 ' ! Isquam, 1 362 368 604 006 00 6 00 8 0010. U- 28. 39 t quart, ehanipabls monthly, t2Q a Jr ; wasklr 36. k tot unit), ehuiKMbIs quarterly 86. column, etaauirsabl quarterly 60. laolumn, ehaug hi quarterly. 100. 10 Una of this ilsml typ Is reckoned a square. AiWsrtlsauumta ordtred on th luild txcluniTely, double th abor ratal. All mdml doUms charged doubls, aiul nuMnnd m If wild. SPEECH OF HON, BENJAMIN F. WADE, OF OHIO, Delivered in the Senate, February 6, 1864, against The Extension of Slavery. The Senate having under consideration the hill to organize the Ten itnrie of Nebraska and Kansas, tho pending question being ou the amendment nf Mr. Ubase to mnice out irom section 14 the word : "was superseded by the principles of the loci. lalioa of 1850, commonly called ilio compromise- meos- nres, and- Sn that the clan so wilt read : "That the Constitution, and all Inws of tho United States which are lint locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effort withiu the said Territory of nenrasKuaieisewnero wiiniu mo united stales, except the eighth section of iho act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, nppmved March (i, lH'Jti, wnicu it noreoy declared lnnpernlive. Mr. Wade said : Mr. President, it ia not without em barrasiment that I rise to debate any question in the senate ot the united mates, fur it is well known thut 1 I lay no claims to being a debater of goneral measured I that come under consideration. I have generally con-; tented myself with the leu ostentatious, but perhaps 1 not less me fill, duty of endoavoring to inform myself upon every question that presents itself, and attending to iho all'iirs uf tho committees to wbh h 1 belong, leaving others to debate inch questions as may from time to timo'arUe. Hut on the prose nt occasion, sir, 1 should be doing violence to my own feelings, and 1 should be recreant in tho duty which I owe to the great Statu which I in part represent, if 1 did not rite ere, and endeavor, with what feeble powers I possess to stay the progress uf the meuur now under con sideration j for, in tny judgment, there never has been a measure of more- serious import to the people of tho United States. I bono it will he debated by ah'er men than myself) I hnpo tho enormities of Ibe prop, osilionwill beset forth in colors that cannot be mis understood here or elsewhere for it involves n cities, tion of good faith, which, in my judgment, is maieml to the perpetuity of the union of these States. It can involve no less a consideration ; for I do not believe, after such an act of perfidy committed in any section of the country, or by all sections of Iho country, that (hit Union can long survive ii. I can remomber wheu tho Missouri Compromise was entered into. I have some recollection uf that period, though I was then a very vouuh man. nnd I can remember how anxinady the people of that part of the country to which 1 belong looked to the pro gress of that question through Congress. 1 reinvm-: hr the fenrlul straggle (hat took place between the different sections nf the country, ana bow anxious our forefathers were lest it should prove utterly disBSTuiis to the union of the Stales which they then cherished. That was some thirty-four years ago ; and iho Missouri Compromise has been regarded, so far as 1 know, from lliat timo to this, as having a character not much less important or saered than that of the Constitution itself. During til that period of time until the present, I huvo not known a man bold enough to corue forward and question its propriety, or move, ils repeal. And why is ibat movement made now I When I came to ttiis Congress I little thought that such n question would be precipitated upon the people. Wo passed through a sectional excitement, which some beliuved endangered the union of these N tales, in 1850. I bud no serious apprehensions at that time; but many go d men many eminent statesmen, thought there wnn danger. The excitement, however, subsided, and good feeling was restored between all sections. A lime of peace, we were told, bad come; and for the four last years I have heaid but little else from the political press than that these dangerous, dillicult and delicate questions bad been all settled, to iho mulnul satislac-tion of everybody, and were to be concurred in and abided by at all hazards. They were to bo n finality ; and were not to be questioned, here or elsewhere In this nil the Government organs concurred; and from day today, I believe, all such piper have set forth the glories ol the compromiso of 1850. and hurled anathemas at any that should question its proptiety in any particular. Why is it. then, that at this time it Is not onlv called in question, but a mora sacred compromiso, that lies far back, is called up and questioned, thut it may bo annulled? What bus transpired ? What new light has burst forth upon the people of the United States, that they come forward at this lime and demand this great and hazardous measure ? I should liko to hear Irons the chairman of tho Com nil 'lee on Territories what now light has burst on these United Slates that requires this now clause in the hill which he reported 7 We all know that it is not a year since a bill to estab lisb a territorial government in Nebraska passed very quietly through the Mouso of Representatives, nnd came into this body t and that when the time of tho uongrnst was cut short by the Constitution, iho chair man of the committee was on his feet urging the Sen ate, at the top of his voice, to pass that bill. Did it occur to him then that the legislation of 1H50 bad tn peraeded and annulled the great compromise of 180,0 1 I heard no such statement nt that I true-1 but I beard tho President of this body, the hnnorahlo Senntnr from Missouri, Mr. Atchison, who lives in that section of the country, in his own person taking the benefit of that compromise. I recollect very well what he said upon tho subject, and no mun could be tuoro vigilant man ne was io unci some crevice uiiougn which ho could escape from the compromise. Hut ho told you that be bad considered it well; bo told you that ho had looked all around it, and he said bo saw that it was all wrong. Ma ail i runt I that we had cmmittnl I two great errors) first, when wo permitted the ordi j nance of 1787 to be npplied, ami, secondly, when the Missouri Compromiso was passed i but he said these things nra done, they are fads thut are Irremediable, and they mini stand. I submit In them, for there is j no getting out uf them, nnd (hero fore lam willing to f piss the bill. I ask again, thon, what now light has sprung up f ( I hoard all that tho chairman of the commiiteo bad In any on that subject, bill I am still in darkness. Then V why, sir, I again ask, has he introduced a clauso which Is calculated to excite the Onion tonvidnessT Can any reason be given for it that it did not exist on tho 4th of March last, when he was urging us to pass iho bill without the exceptionable cIhubuT No, sir; no sir. If any such reason exists he has failed to tell us what it is. Whence shall we seek for knowledge, toco the committee has failed to enlighten ns f If no reason can he given, we may ask, what motive could promot step so hazardous T When men will nol frankly disclose their motives, we are driven to an ex animation of their conduct t and we seek lo satisfy our craving for knowledge by tracking out the manner in which they have arrived at their conclusions. If there had been any reason that would bear the light for the clause which is now exciting so much attention, might we nut reasonably have expected to find it in ino utmueraie report mat tho co mini tire hid given reRj it, uif Mr. President, this conspiracy to overturn this old time-honored compromise, this old guarantee of liberty, i is not yet six weeks old. It baa been hatched some where within that time. I am not going to look back into the history of the opinions of the chairman of the committee, fur I know that they have been exceedingly mutable. 1 know, at Chicago, some years ego, he prem hed a doctrine not precisely in accordance with what he has lately preached bate. Hut that is entirely unimportant. I do not low pretend to show what his opinions are or have been t but here we have the authentic account of opinions that some Senators entertained at the time the report was tniulo. H a fore I nuote from this document, mav 1 be tier- milted to nsk whether they believed, at iho limn limy made that repnrt, that the legwlathm of 8.r0 superseded the old compromise of 1 820 f Did ony "ch idea enter into their imagination! No, sin not at all. They placed the bill that ibey then reported upon entirely ilillerent grounds; and although they had occasion to remark upoulhissame question, they said it was an important and delicate one, that eminent statesmen had not dared to touch, and they would not do it, That is the sense and spirit of what is contalnod in l lie report of the committee. They tny, on these suhjecle: "They inyule iho same grave Issues which produced the agitation, the sectional strife, and lie fenrlulslrug gle of 1850. As Congress deemed it wiso and prudent to refrain from deriding the matters in controversy, then, either by affirming or repealing the Mexican laws or by an act declaratory of (he true intent of the Con stilutioo, and Iheexteut of the protection afforded by it to slave property in the Territories, an vonr nommit. tea are not prepared now to recommend a departure from the COtlraa nllrlOd on thai mamnnliU m i-.amn "i10!-0' Arming or repealing the eighth section of um uiiMuuri sci, or Dy any act declaratory ol the That. Mr. President, is what that committee thought , about four weeks ago. Tiiey had no doubt deliberated unon this subject, and in this report we have the joint wisdom of iho whole committee embodied, so fit as we know, Tor 1 have heaid uoimseut from it. I ney reported a bill in accordance with that opinion; and is it not strange unaccountably strange, that these experienced gentlemen, statesmen and Senators should have entirely changed iheir ground, aud assigned no reason for the change? Within less than twenty days afterwards they get tho bill recommitted to themselves, but they have made no additional report. They do not tell us why they have changed their minds, or that any extraordinary occurrence has authorized the change which his been made in the amended bill, hich now contains the very provision which they be fore stated they carefully refrained from touching. Hut, sir, notwithstanding their extraordinary silence, they have diwoverod that the legislation of 1850 had, in some mysterious manner, superseded the most stern and stubbnrn Inwol Congress, which was formed upon a compromise as sue red as could be made be tween conflicting sections of this Union, and concurred in on all hands for at least one third of a century ; and yot they flippantly tell us that it is oil overturned, all superseded by the compromise Ic pi I a linn ot I8.U, I and hence they embodied this provision in their bill, and atk for ils pussnge. Now, ns a lawyer, I htirdly know what a man means when be tells me that an act of legislation is superseded by a principle. I thought it took an act of Congress to repeal, or annul, or suspend, a former act, 1 did not understand how that could be done by a principle. I do not know, however, but there may he sumo new menus discovered by which a stubborn law of Congress ono of tho most solemn acts ol legislntion, hardly less solemn than the Constitution of the United States itself may ho annulled, and repealed, and suspended, by a principle wliieh aortic gentlemen protend to have found in the legislation of 1850, called ' the compromiso;'lei-ila-tion in which not a single principle can bo mado out, as, t will attempt, very soon, to show. Mr. Douglas. 1 can save the gentleman tho necessity of arguing upon a point upon which he is evidently laboring under a misapprehension. I stated distinctly, tho oilier day, that my position was: That so fur as the country covered by the Missouri compromiso was embraced within tho limits of Utah nnd Nnw Mexico, iho acts of 18.10, in regard to those Territories, rendered the Missouri compromiso inoperative, and that so fur as the territory covered by tho Missouri compromise was not embraced in those arts, it was superseded hy the great principle thon established. In oilier words, I contend that by tho acts of 18'0 n great principle) of sen government was substituted tor a geogrnphical lino ; and houce, hy tho uho of tho words " superseded oy, t mean which wnn " inconsistent with ' tho compromise of 1850. If the gentleman prefers Iho words 'inconsistent with," will put thorn in with a grout deal of pleasure, and that will avoid nil the trouble in regard to the use of iho word ''supersede." Air. Wade. Tim Senator uiado a very siuiplo declaration in bin speech upon this poiut, und I have il bore. After all the verbiiigo id the spoech of iho honorable Senator from Illinois, it is summed up finally in ono idea, and ho anys so himself. Ho says upon this point : " Sir. in order to avoid any misconstruction, I w stato more distinctly what my precise idea ia upon this point. ni iitr as ino llloll anu iNuw ivlexico bill! in eluded the territory whir.hhud been subject tn tin-Mia soiiri compromise provision, to that extent tlioynbao-lately annulled the Missouri compromise. As to 1 lie mi B.mied territory not covered bv Hiohb bills, it whs superseded by the principles of tho compromise of 1851). Wo nil know that tho object of the compromise measures of 1850 was lo establish certain groat princi pies, which would avoid the slavery agiiniion in all timo lo cumo. as our object simply to provide for A temporary ovil J'' &c. That, he says, was hia precise idea. It was that iho Missouri compromiso wns annulled to tho extent to whic h Congress, in running tho boundiiry lines of New Mexico and Utah, might lake for thes iko ot convoni enco nuy litlte pieco of territory which was covered by the Missoiii i Compromise. That certainly was a trui.tm; but tho idea ih:it iho nets lo orpnnie Uiuh nnd Now M xieo repeal' d or superseded iho Missouri Compiomise as to tho remainder of tho territory ac quired by the L jiiisinnn cession, is nil idea from which i am glad to see iimt the yetiut'inan now recedes. Mr. oiiglas. Not ai all. Mr. Wude. Well, the Senator says bo does not re- eedu from his former position. What does lie mean. then, by saving that the Missouri Compromise was superseded by the principles of Iho compromise meas ures oi twin nuppoBn you run n nno witu your neighbor, and the line has becomo uticerlnin, nnd in order to straighten it you run nnoiher, aud in running tnisouier nno may posiuiy iu m a nni inmi belonged to him, or you may leave out a halo belong ing to yourself ; but you make u lino, and Ihen after you straighten It, it you hud you entered wrongfully on his hind, the principles of running that line super scded his title '.o tho baltnce, and therefore you citi lay title tn the whole of his land, if I understand iho gentleman; for he says ho does not recede from the positions taken in his bill not in his report, for it is said inero no never would give audi on opinion. inlormetl ns, in the repirl, that there was a matter too gravo even for Congress to decide, and much loo crave fur a committee, mid therefore they would not do it; and yot in nineteen days afterwards they come in wnn what is equivalent to a toini repeal o the com promise. Now, Mr. President, I want to know if that art was superseded, if that legtfdulion wan inconsistent with this, or if it (urnished any occasion when all sections j id the country ore nt peace, when everything is pro ' greaaing to ihtt salisfuciioti of nil. and n state of entire good feeling between all sections happens to exist for throwing n firebrand in here at thii time? I know nut what iho motive enn he, I enre but hit In what it is. The deleterious e Heels of this attompt lo repeal that compromise will bo foil, not only now, but long after the preaent generation ore in Iheir graves. I will not answer for the consequences of ihe legislation d Ibis day, sir; but I niiximmly desire to impure if nothing can be established in Ibis (lovernment T Is there nothing too sacred to bo overhauled for some inferable party ornlher purpose! Who was it that had tho rettloment of the Missouri compromise at tho time il was made I Was it done by stutesinon interior to Ihoso ot the present Betieia- lion f I think not; for there vvern giants ia thoso days, ns groat as (hose ot tho present, J here, sir, Hiood ,)ohn 0- Calhoun in the Cabinet, advising upon thut art. There, too, was Mr. Crawford, nnd there wns Mr. John umcy Adams. think that they might, with reanonuble propriety, bo udjuilged to comprehend tho work lliey were doing. Aenin I say to my friends from the South, who with mo linvo fought many a poliiicl battle shoulder to shoulder though far distant from each oilier who have triumphed in a mutual triumph even ilioui-kVwe failed to elec t your great chief, referring to Mr. Clay. wuen we nuempiea io elevate mm, ns ne deserved, to tho highest otlice in the world, tli.it ho, t o, look part in this compromise, and I am mortified to see that hi" orrcssors here are endeavoring to blot out the work thut his patriotism had performed. Why, sir, be is scarcely in his grave befuro another generation comes up that knows not what 1m had done, nnd sorr n even pretend that in what bo bimsolf did, in lH.r() he seemed to concede that tho compromise of K'juwasnot to bo lived up to. l wns tint h ro in IP50, but I have read tho d.-balei of that period, nnd I have endeavored to inform myself on that subject) and I tell Iho getitlomen, notwithstanding ull ihey may argue and all they m iy sny on ibis subject, there Is not it wrd, nor n syllable, thut rnes to indicate thai any one supposed that anything was donn then to overthrow the time-honored compromiso of IK-'O, Not one word, sir; but, on the contrary, if they could recur to this compromise, ihey indorsed it nnd re-iitlirmed it in 1850 beyond nil gainsaying. No doubt of it. Sir, was amazed wh n I heard the chairman of this committee iiund forth hero, and pretend that in some manner the lejiUlutlon of 1850 hail super seded Ihe compromiso of 1H20, and that tho Missouri line was blotted out, or repudiated; when, on the contrary, so careful wore lliey in all their legislation not to touch it at all, that ihuy ref. rred lo il in terms. and reconfirmed and reestablished it, I will not take up tho time of tho Senate by rend in tt lhat provision, although I hive it here, for I presume every one has Hy the resolutions annexing lexas. the mis There is nothing now to prevent us doing with ' what will minister lu the best interest of the poo i f now and hereafter.. Our forefathers expressed thoir opinion nt lo wlint was beat to be done with it. They believed it should be fenced up from the iutru sion of this 'accursed scourge of mankind, human sla very. They have done this effectually in thisTerritory.- Shall we undo llioir work T Tho southern States have had tho benefit of the Missouri Comprom ise, and I now appeal to my southern Whig frieudi whotherwe of tho North did not pledge our constituents that you were honorable men; ilia'. you would stand hy all the guarantees of the Constitution, and nil the duties which properly devolve upon you; and that, above nil, tho chivalry of the South would never brt attempted, by any fancied or teal interest, to abandon the terms of any compact, when they had received the benelit on their side, aud wheu ils terms remain to bo fulfilled hy them. This is a doctrine which I have frequently preached. My Binfizoment was very groat when I heurd that any of these gentlemen wore in council with tho enemy. I feared that something Imd taken placo which ought not lo havo itiken olaco. I felt slroiiE in heart to np- peal to them against any fancied interest which they miht conceive themselves to have, for thoir duly is plain and pul)ahlo. Did not our forefathers inuko a compart ? Did they not make it after a fearful struggle which was dungorous to this Union T I suy, was there not such a compact mudo t And iu Ino wnole historv of our leoialutioii, appeal to you, has there ever been one moro sacred or moro Dimiing upon you Havo you, southern Senators, not bad the full benelit of it T Havo you not enjoyed it now for Umlyyoars? Has any northern man stopped forward to impair your rights in thut compromise T No, sir, it is uot pretended; and now tho period is drawing near when that part of ibis great hnrgain which ia beneficial to us at ino iNorth i approacmng, mm i can upon you ns honorable men to fulfill it. Shrink not from it. Do nol tell me that your constituents will col sanclton you induing what you know to he right, I believe that your constituents are honorable men. I believe they win understand tho motives which impel you to iio your duty, notwithstanding you might have some fancied inline nco tho other way. Tho Senutor from Kentucky Mr. Dixon to'd us that thin came fn m the North, and therefore the South wero absolved from their obligation. I must say I think you unilendand well that the North know nothing about this base rouspiraey to betniy them. Wht-n did it como up 1 Did you let it go befuo tho people, lb at they miht pass upon the question 7 Why, sir, In ihu Presidential oh-ction, triumiilmiit us (he Denioo racy were, I ak any gentleman of lyi North, tupposo you had staked tho election of Mr. Pierce upon this question, how ninny votes could h" lno received iu the North T Not one. You gave us no notice of any such thing. Tho pooplo of tho N irth, oven now, do not know what uelurious piojecis are afoot here iu the Capiiol. You of iho South aro absolved, because om or two men, very lionoriiblo men, stand l-Tth hero and sny " 1 urn ready lo go in nt.d make this monstrous proposition." Sir, In ihe days of the (Involution, Ma Andre was hung by iho neck until he was dead for accepting a proposition not more bne- than this, which is a groHs betrayal of tho rights of the wh ilo North. And yettlint is the only reason wliieh ihe Senator from Kentucky gives why ho should vote tor this hill. II" wilt not piotend to tell us that lie would abrogate and violate tho great pledge Which linn been kept on iho part id Iho North, unless northern men stood iiore an thorixed, as he thinks, to roliovo lliem from that il dgo I toll him that ihey are not ntnlnrized to do iiiiy such thing. I tell him that ihoso whoso annuls ihey me, know nothing about ibis, and do not know wlmi ireiisoii to ihe rtorthiisha 'ctiitig hero. My colleague atntcd tho other day that it was n mutter of fact, which everybody knew, that the pecn liar interest which wo list I nt iho North topiovoiit slavery encroaching upon this great Territory, U, thut the moment you cover it over with pern occupy in i lie mlation of mister nnd slavo, tho free man of th North cannot go there. lie announced lhat greattruth in this body, (Jenth-men know it tuhenlruili, and they don'ii gainsay i'. (int lemon know that the lnh minded I'rtemanof the Norib, ulihoii"h not blessed wilh properly, has nevertheless n soul, nnd that tie cannot stoop to labor side by side with your miserable serf. He never has done it ho never will do it. It was an unlucky word from tho gentleman from Kentucky when be said, if ho cumiot tubor in tlmi way, let him go somewhero eUo. I that Iho democracy of iho Chairman ol the Committee on Territories ? Let him tell the yeomanry of Illinois llio hard lilted laboring man of that gieat Slate that this ia the prin eiple upon which he uc'.s; lhat tlii Territory is to bo covered over with slaves nnd wilh masters, and lint hi proud constituency aro to go out there nnd work side by side ; degrading ihoinsclvea by working upon u level wilh your misunihio slavus. i.ot him do so, and it is n declaration which I think will tingle in the ears of Democracy, mid the people w ilt come, to under stind that you are legifla iug for the privileged aristae racy of tho South, to iho exclusion of the. whole North How is lliMf We ate told lhat tho slaveholder mind go into this Territory, Why? IWause, says iho gentleman from Kentucky, il belongs to tho States, and ihoso who hold alavea have just an good a right to lira migrate into it nnd take their properly wilh them, ns i auy other person has. Now, we have seen that these two interests arn antngnnUiicnl i they cannot both stand together. If you take your alavea there, I tell you the proud laborer of the North, although ho has no capital, except his ability to draw from the enrih m support ry tionorniiio labor, win never coiiNi-m io work side by side wnh your misoniMo serl nnd slave. Then, there being mi antnontsm between these two principles, winch is greatest in numbers 7 According to the present ceilMlls, all the hluVeliolders in tho United States do not amount to lour hundred lliousiinil. What numbered' In r laborers are there wlm ought to have iho benefit of this great Territory 7 Probably fully ihirieen million nto lo bo ollset ngaiuBt about lour hundred lliotisaud. II you tuUo any con aid or a bio num ber of slaves into tins Territory, vou ns Hlerttiallv blast nnd condemn it for all tho purposs of free immigration, na ihotjeh you shouM burn it with (ire and brimxtuno, ns tfodoin nnd fi' inorruh wero once consumed. Kveiy ninii underttanils this. Immigration doe not uluve. States. Immigration rnnnnt abide there. Hut is tin re any co ihIHo- ! tionul dilliaiity upon this subj- ct ? Senator from tln Nonih sny they can go into this Territory, and toko their properly with ihem. Now why should they he let in there with what ihey cull iheir properly? Am I obliged, as a member of the (lovormueut nt iho United States, to acknowledge your title to n alavo 7 No, sir, never. He tore I would do it, I would nxpitriate myself; for I am a believer In ihe Declaration of Independence, i believe that it whp a declaration from Almighty God, lhat nil men nro created free and equal. and have tho same inherent richts. Hot, llinnh C i J . tho (Jovenimeiit of the United Stales, lo wlm h Iho long, does not anywhere compel any man to acknowl edge the title of any person lo a slave. If you own him. you own him hy virtue id' positive law in your own States, with which 1 havo nothing to do, nnd wilh which 1 will h ivo nothing to do. Mr, l tx-nr llm geri' tleinau trout Nouth Carolina Mr. Hotter talking to the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Dixon,! and I wish it to go forth lhat the gentleman from South Carolina says, why should not the fren laborer work wilh ihn slavo r In be not inn equal! Is that tho opinion id the chairman of thn committee ? Mr. Dixon. Will tho Senator allow mo to ask n vou there, if vou will meet mo upon that Usuo. If you will make it appear that your principle works better than cms, let us not only carry It into Nehrasku. but let us carry it to tho or-ds of the earth ; let us send iniiVmiaries mil to hero lci;furth the blessings of human slavery, and introduce it into countries where it does not now exist, il yua can una sucn. i am tor uoing the greatest good to mankind. Hut how ia this ? Look at the old Di minion herself It iajiot more than sixty years no, I -nily l.a the nro of one man passed away mhoo the Old Domii.i-;ii wu a head and shoulders higher, in every particular, limn nny Htn'o in this Union, not only iu the number of her population, but in hor riches and wealth, nt A hf im portance of all that pertained to hor. Why, sir, nt the litno your Constitution was framed, so apparent wns this that I-jJmund Itaiidolph. I think it wns, refused t sign the Constitution of iho United States, alleging as a reason that it wns ull wrong. Tho State ot Now York, suid he, will have as much influence in tho Senate of the United States an Virginia itself, under this Constitution. It is all wrong. Tho smull States will be on a par with tho Imp States. It ought to be grounded, either upon property, ir upon the number of whilo male inhnbituiils. That is what Im said at ihf lime, nnd that was ihe condition of tilings at tho time. Now look on old Vir ginia. Ones she not lie in the liirest part of this continent T Is there any oilier Shilo that exceeds ht-r in the forliliiy of her soil, in the s-ilubriiy of her climate, in all that pertains to tho material welfare of man? No Slate iu this Union probitbly could compnro with her. And now, during ou'B? of man, howdoesshe rank according to iho last 'iii.nua? W hy, from number one she has sunk to number4 five. What h is produced this? That grout statcsnmnshin of which the Io,ib1b so much, and upon which bo sometimes, ns think, takes airs In IhthcII ? Is tb. iho loinciplu? Have your principles ol statesmanship ndvnticeikyolt thus ? Why, sir, your atutesmawthip is Al'iicinized, ami you wont to Africanize this whole Territory. That is what you are after; and il i is right, yoti f lion Id do it. Hut, really, the policy ol tin Government now tbltors but a little from what it is in Allien, from fiuiuea to Tim bucloo. Wo are about tho sainu in principle, There they aro opposed to nny general system of inlei n;i improvement ; ihey are opoiMed In any general system of education. I do not know thut lliey carry it quim us fir as ihey do in some oilier places, where they whip und imprison women wiioumiertuko toteacii inopoor. am not quite certain that thy undertake To curry it to ihnt extent ; but, nevertheless, so fur ihey go side by side ; and when you coto to raising children for Iho market, they can vie well with each other, HtH they seek to extend llie market for human beings; nnd hciico Ihe objict of ibid hid. Their object is to on bunco und extend this market ; nnd I fuy it does not coitHiHt with the vvelturo of thU Union to do so. I say that to fill ihe intoiinr ol thU continent wilh that kind of chattels is lo td.mt tho hdro-t prospects of every man who has ever enlcrlnined Iho highest hoj csol Hie j progress ut his country, and hence it is that 1 stand hero ns one to oppose it. Vou may call mean Abolitionist if you will; I care but liuh) lor that ; for if an undying haired lo hlavery or oppression cmiHlilules an Abolitionist, 1 am lhal AhoiiiioniHt, IT man's detertuiua' ion, at all limes and all hazards, to llie last extremity, lo resist thn extension cd slavery, or nny other tyranny, constitutes an Abolitionist, J before (iud, bolu-vo myself to ho that Aholitrit.iid, Sol wnsta'ight, and I shall not probably very sunn swerve front iho faith of my forefathers in this partictilir. It is idlo to uy "Abolition" lo me. To me il is nn hoiiuiuhlo name. Not, sir, lhat 1 ever went wi'h lhat particular party; but I did not differ from tltt m on lheo pom's; but brcau?o ihey did not itiiike their opjoitioii tli ctiiul, in my judgment ; for I would havo oiie. with iIioko wit would have rendu d your iiiKiilntioiM, w heicver thy Constitution gave us a right to resell them, without eotrenchiiu.' ono hnirV breadth where wo hud )i ti;:li'. There I do Hot undertake, nnd never ahull und'-riukc, o in n h, upon them. I ml mil that iu the Stu'es you have full control over it. You may do wi;h it us s-'ems to you cord. You never found me, you never found the party to wtucli 1 belong in tho North, pretending lotto iinitniij nd verso lo your right tn mako Mich lawn nnd regnl.i lions with rcguid to ihU institution nay on please. hoped, lik other men, that vu would see llmt tin ysteiu did not wotk to your heat nitv.intuge ; weweio in hopes you would see thai a gradual stttein of eman cipation, just such as made Iho vutd ddb-reni-e be'we n the progress ol Ihe Kta'e ot Mow YmK nnd old V ir ginia, would wiiko up every sensible man to follow in ihe truck, and to do likewise. Wo hoped that, but claimed no right to interfere, Vou must do with tlm ns seems to voii gii 'd. 1 regret, Mr Pre.-ident, that this quenlion has nrhvii hero now, for I believe all will hear mo witness that I biivotjol b' en hiclioiM Jiero. Krom lb firs! day I took repudiating this obligation. Do you not soe that you aro about to bring slaverv and freedom face to face, t grapple for tho victory, and that one or the other miiKt die? I don-it know that I ought to regrot if, but I s ty to (jentlonien you are antedating the lin e when that mimt come. It has always been my opinion mil principles tn entirely m opposition to each nlner, bo utterly hosiilo ar.d irreconcilable, could never exist b-ng in tho same government. But, sir, with mti'md forbeaianco and good will, with no attempt on either sido to lakntlio udvnn'nge ol tho other, perhaps we might have lived in happiness nnd pence for many years-; hut when you cmua boldly forih tn overthrow tho time-honored guorunteo of liberty, you show us that the principles of slavery are uggreudve, incorrigibly aggressive; that they can no moro ho at ene than can ho a guilty conscience. If yon show na that aud you nro fast pointing tho n-nd lo am h o state of things hnw can it bo o'horwso than that wo must meet each othr as enemies, fighting for tho victory; for tho una or tho other of these principle must pre vail. s I tell you. sir, if you precipitate such a cor.flict as that, it will not bo liberty that will die in tho nine. tnih century. No, sir, that will uot bo the party that must finally knock under. This Is a progressive age; and if you will make this fight, you must he ready for tho consequences. I regret it. am an advocate for tho continuance of this Union; but us I have already sa;d, I do pot beliuvo this Union can survive ten years tho act of perfidy that will repudiate tho great compromie of 18'JO. j Mr. President, I do not wish to detain the Senile upon this subject. Perhaps I have said all that I have to s ty upon it. I wished to enter my protest against 'his act, I winded to wash my hands clean of this nefarious conspiracy to iramplu on tho rights of freemen, and pivo tho ascendency to slavery. I could no! justify my course to my constituents without h iving clone so to iho iiimost of my ubiliiy ; and having iciiio s, 1 shall leave this Usui lo you in say whether il is SHfo, rifiltt, and rei(innhlo for nny fancied tidvan-t'lgo, to incur such enormous perils, I ktmw gentlemen think nil calm, and I know they will preach pence. I wish there was real peuce.for I do not delight in contention. 1 have endeavored not to be u contentious man bore, I have endeavored nvon to abide by your cornptomUcs, which I did not exactly like. Hut 1 havo overlooked nno 1hing that I ought to h ivo s.iid. Tho Senator from Illinois deduces some qreiit principles from the compromises of lfl.'O. So he tuyH in but speech. Now, Irom the very nature ol (nolo comii online, it was all hot impossible thutmiy pirlic nlur principlo could bo deduced from thorn. There wero several niiltiiionisiic'iil subjects, about which thorn was dispute; nnd, indeed , there can nover be much of a principle drawn ftmn a compromiso of an- lugonisiiiMl nrincipb s. That is not the placotolixa pruiciplH. ihfrowas Ualilorm she had adopted a coiisliiiitnm, and soitlil to bo admitted into the Union. Iloro was Tex us wuhim; to havo her Itouutlury ad justed with New Mexic . Hero wns the Uis'rict ol Columbia, iu which tho North contended that slave markets should ho abolished. Perhaps ilu-n- w re no two men who agreed in all these pionohitioiis. Some were fur permitting C dilor nia to bo admitted into the Union. Tho whole North though) il ought to come iu; but did you then stand upon tho doctrine uf non-intervention? Hero was a Slate organized with a freo n risiitutioti, knocking nt your doors for adminsion. When-, thou, was this great ib ctrinc of lion inierveniiop in iho South? WherodiJ it find uny ndvoentos tin n ? Why. sir, tho State ul fi-:orgi:i, I recalled, paed li'Tresolutions, and among other points winch nut bunl would justily her in dis-i solving the Union, ono wns the admission f Culif iruia into tho Union. Then, sir, wns nonduierveniioii with a viMigetit.ee! Tho whoio South steed in opposition to lrr cn'oritig ihii Union with a freo enniOituiiiin. th ii n iii-ititt rvontion ? And yet the gentleman cay, ono grent principlo that ho deduces from tho legislation uf 185(1 is mm -intervention. S i far Irom that, I should suppobu it won intervention of the very highest character, to shut n Slate nut of lids Union, to resist hor approach hero its long as il could be done, and never to ) iuld to it till some consideration daild ho given for it. A nriiu iulo of non-inlorvention, says the jjetiilciruin, growing out of such a state of things 'is lhat .' Hut, tlx gonlteman also said lhat ho oflerrcl to extend tin: Mi.-souii Compromise lino lo tho Pacific, and ho Hiiys iho nuti slavery feeling rejected t, nnd them-hue ho is going to take vengeance upon us, and come up into tho Norlli wiifi his slavery doctrine. How was thut? Tho Mutouri Compromisa was a restriction tipm shivery; but the territories which we tit.' quired from Moxico wero already, by a decree of Mi x i co, free from slavery; therefore your lino, when yon propnmdit, was to extend slavery, not to restrict it, no ai.nu gy in ibo pi incipies m nil. tinw ro iHistcIIoiii). FB0NTIEB LIFE. frontier life!" I think I hoar my littlo readers echo, knitting ihmr brows; ' frontier I'fo I wish Fanny Fern wouldn't writo about things wo don't un derstand. SiiLJp.iso I should tell yon n story lo make you under stand it? How would yon like that? Mitty Monro's father took it into his head that Ac should like frontier life. So ho traveled hundred and hundreds of miles way ell' where ihe miu goes down, in find a place in which to settle. The nuda were rough nnd bad. 8 imotimea iMvotild bo a long while before they reached a place where truvolers coiild gfl drink nnd food ; and Mitty's little bones would acho, and she began to think with " Paddy," that iho ond of th journey was cut nil'. At hist Mr. Moore found a place to Ids mind; and ihey all hailed, with tlm old hnggago wagon, in the Woods ; and Mitty, and her little brothers mid sUters, jumped out nnd stretched their limbs, mid looked way up into iho grent tall trees, to try to see tho tops, which seemed to pierce the clouds. I hey in ;do a sort ot pic-nic dinner, out ol some pro vmioih slowed nway in iho old wagnti ; after wbn h, Mitty 'ft father nnd elder brother pulled ofl'tlu ir Con's, stripped up thtir shirt-sleeves, und went to woik to make a ''clearing," ns they culb-d it, for a log house felling the trees, und cutting unci hurntrg thounder-bruh. Il took them n long whilo to hew down tlins.i fine old trees. I'm ghul I didn't seo it done, for I shoiiM have sung out, wi'h (Jetieral Morn, Wnnilman t upsrothdt tree I 'i'ourii not h ii (;V byufihl" fur, a house, you know, can bo put up by any car-tenter wlm owns a set f tools, hut it takes iti'iny n lung year uf dew and much ino b make those- grnnd old trees tower up to heaven. However, it was all lino inn tor Rlitiy, who sat on an old slump, with her chin resting in her hands, witching to see the stout old trunk stnnd like a rock uguitmt their heavy blows; then I enn n little; then crink, OS it it were groaning with pain that Us green branches must so soon wither; then totter; then fall, cribbing to the earth, liko tho "giuut" bol -ro little ''David." Mitty liked it, though it wns rather dun genius sport ; for, if tho tree hud fallen upon her protiy I it i Jo load, stio never would rmvo toxseu imcK n-r bright curls acain. Mitty was jut tho ri-Jit sort of n Mitty lorn little fronlier girl. Shu seemed to know just when to hand her tai her iho axe, or iho hatchet, or tho pick uxe ; mid just when ihey could rest n miun'e to lake a drink ul witter, or a mo ithful nf bread nnd cheese. She didn't talk to them when Ihey wero bony, but amused her self making little h-g houses, wilh chips, for her dolly. Shi didn i scream or run, it a Mm He ,r a rabbit went over her fool ; she wns uoi all Iho lime conjuring up he irs, nnd tigers, and rarimous. or catching hold ol her father every time she heard a littlo squirrel squeal ; not the shn loved everything; and lmr soul looked out us feailejidy from her sweet blue eyes, as if pain and danger and death hud never followed tho Serpent into Eden. Now, I suppose yon nro wondering what people m buried in the woods did for stores and fdmpn. in which tn buy things, and for meeting homes and new papers.In the first place, when ihey went there, they made no llioir minds lhat silk dressen and icu-creami didn't crow on fronlier bushes ! ami Ihey soon hecamn na tohislud to find Imw nuitiy thing- there were tint weie not at all necossiry to th- ir hnppineM, which th?'V had always felt they could vol do vilhmit. They kept a cow, nnd she found l hem in milk ; ihey It opt hens, and the hens kept Mem in eggs; ihey kept a pig, mid the pig mado no ohp'ctin-i in being cut up, whenever tliov got ready to eat him; then, itiey brought im nl and tl ur oimuf-h with them, lo lint till hey could plough tho hud, and r:ii-e corn and whom of thoir own, w hich lhy intended doing as soon us llie log house should ho raided ovvr their hem. a. Ull, Ihey got on luinoiisly. .It was good, healthy work, this digging, nnd hewing, and ploughing. It mudo iho muscles on i li i r nrmi itnlid out liko whip cords; it bronzed llioir pate faces, nnd made their eyes bright, and gave thorn a good appmile lor their bread and milk; and when lliey win. to bed, they didn't Htop to see if tho seam ot the sheet was exactly in th" mmdlo, or lo count the tenlbeis in ino pillows turner iheir heads. I hey bad neighbors ( IV in tlifiWont manner exceedingly WlWntivu to men of ihe North, j stricted wluvery, nid tho other extended slavery. What question? Mr. Wade. Huller. Air. Dixon, Vos, sir; and your associate, too, Mr, souri compromise line was alluded to, and in terms imintaiiied. The provision was, that in tho territory above 6hv ju inero snouiii no neitucr siavory nor in voluntary servitude, except for the commission nf crime. Those reB-lutions expressly relerred to the line of 3C 30 as the Missouri compromise Hue. Then to make assurance doubly stiro, in the compromise bill organising New Mexico, lhat legislation is referred to, audit is said thoro shall be nothing sn construed as to impair that clause. So far, then, from overturn- inn it, or superseding It in any possible way, they most deliberately turn iheir attention to it, and Jor fear any construction of the kind might bo drawn, such as the Senator now sees fit to draw, ihey mado a stern provision against it. Hut, sir, i need not rotor further lolhn speech ot the Senator from Illinois. My Colleague Mr. Chase so entirely pulverized lhat speech that ihero is not enough or It left upon which n man can possibly hang an idea, i Laughter, j in I act, thorn was noth-ing to begin with) and surely there is nothing left of it. It was a baro afterthought, permit me to say. After tho report of ihe committee had been made, nnd tho bill had been altered, it was necensary to get up soino other reason or pruloxt than was set forth in tho report, in order to show why it was proposed to repeal tho Missouri Compromiso. I do not like to bo uncharitable I do not liko lo be compelled to nrgtio in lhat way ; but when 1 aoe these crooked tracks, what inference can I drawl Most assuredly, that tho commiiteo had no determinate, settled pur-mso is Iu the necessity or altering this compromise when they first reported. They had not good and sulllcient roason to pro peso a repeal of it; lor if they had they would have snid su at once. Now. bow are we to view this matter? Can wo viow it in any other ngniT Tho Senator, if 1 nndertood tnin. suid ho was n believer in the Declaration of Independence, and lo the douti iitvsuf fbid, wbieh deelnre that till men are equal. Ho-s tho (senator mean that the uve is equal lo thoso freo laborers that Im speaks uf in ilio norm t Mr. Wado. fin on. Mr. Dixon. I desire him to nnswer that qnci tion. Mr. Wndo, Certainly; certainly. The slave, hi my indgmrnt, ii eemul to anybody else, but ia degraded hy ihe tiPlurtous acta and seiiinnois oi too musier, wnn couiuoIb him, by opiu force and without right, to serve nun an n . J hut, sir. is my iiocinue. vtimn yon sneak of equality before tho law, or equality before llio Almighty God, I do imt suppose you addressing Mr. Dixon stand one whit higlmr thun iho meancd slave you havo. That is my judgment, ami probably it is the judgment that you will nnd en land iu the Inst day, though you will not understand It before. Mr. Dixon. Will iho Senator allow mo tn mk another quotdiou ? Mr. Wade, Yes, air; us m uy ns you plrrtsti. Mr. Dixon. D ies llio Senator consider tlm fine negroes in bis Stn'o na equal to the Iron while peo ple I i Mr. Wade. Yes. Why not equal? !). ih.y not all havo their lifo from Almighty (hl: tin not they hold it of his tenure? When you Hpeuk nf wen th, riches, and inlluencc if t at is what you menu they aro generally poor, without influence, peilctpsdenpincd nmong na as well as wilh you ; but thut docs not pre vent that equality id which l apeak, t say, in the langungo of iho Declaration nf Independence, that they wero 11 created equal," m il you have trampled ilium under tout, and made r em apparently unequal by your own wrong. That is all Ihero ia of it. That is my doctrine. 1 do not go into tho States, be it known; I never went there to ak nny questions nt you; but I beliovo your huiidatinii is alt wrong, and as wrong for you, even, as it is for your slaves; lor when 1 coutrust tho prosperity ol tho Nlntes wliuro this wrong and outrage ia indulged in with tho proa pertty oi those where the tree unit ,uist principles ol tho North prevail, what I the mauileslation ol these p. i, ipii-a upon the appmeut weihtio tif the societies in which they prevail ? This is n question which, if it wero not involved in this conlrovery, I should not argue nt all; for I do not wish to do nnyihing which will excite ill feeling here; but I cannot shrink from anything that Is pertinent to the issue. The question is whether, in that fair field, Inrgo ai a continent, wo shall now plant human slavery ) or whether wn shall leave it as our forefathers left il loured out forever hereafter. That brings up the whole question. If slavery is rigui u u comports with the host interests ,... r - 7 J " nere ia territory large as an empire; as large, i B vuiu(-i won mis urm luii-inm meaning ot the Constitution lDrespeclto the Wal h.li. a. .11 ih. r ri..a. tnn..i, i u of mankind, alaverv unoueaiionablv ahonhl be fnaterod poinla in dispute," M Mture( n , beautiful u tho garden of Qod.l"oouragetlf and upheld by our legislation. I am with were urged ution ns dav niter ilitV. week alter Week. and mmiih nfit-r month, well ctilculaitd lo stir the, blood of a northern man, und ye- I sut m der it. Whilo it was a matter iu ihe absimrt, 1 cared nothing about it. Your finality resolutions that wero ilehuud hero so long, all that you could sny hero or eUewhere, yoni-ilolerminatioiis to reniit all ngi'atioii nf this subject never stirred me to oppoiiim ; but when you comu in bore, by law attempt ing tn legalize fdnwry In half neon tiueiit und to hi ing il into thin Union in ifmt way, and when, iu doing ho, yon nro guilty of iho reuleiil perfidy you can commit, 1 must enu-r my iiidinnnt protest against it. St, what will bo iho ctmscqiicncn of pas-dug this hill? Dot a iei uny inmi see that il lint effect will bo in render all luturn compromi-ei ubxo-lutely ridtciiloiH and mipotohh ? for if one us sob-inly entered in'o a ihi. dm Imlhhilly lived up tons llus, shall bo thus wtititotily broken unwn, Imw, when matter nl dillerenro uijuiii ariiea between 1H, khall we iromiiromino it? Shn! wet haveany Im h iu en h other? No, sir; no. Where isotir cuinproiiiiseof 1850f Why it ia jmtfis i-tlricitlally gunou the compromise, you now seek to repeal. 'I hey both stand together- One guarantees Iho other. They nro linked together by the sumo leiM.dtt'iou. To reoiidiatooiio M to repudiate bulb. And do you believe, sir, that wo shall keep ntir li-niiln oil' thut portion of tho leinlalion id' Ili.'iO iijim which iho Mouth now relies as giving an equal c hauco lor lavtiry In New Mexico und Uluh, nnd wlm h is exceed ngly C'lh'hfMYn in the Nnrdi, as that wns ftee country wheu wo conquered it? Suppose a prodigoiis okeilo-mont p'OvndoM till iho northern tStute.-. Surposo they como in hero to sny to the S itrh l '' You h ivo led the way in repudiating comptouiises, and, as ill nro is no further ti unt to bo ro, on d in one sect inn uf tho conn try or tho other, wo aternly demand a repeal of all those laws which are for your benelit, nsyon huvn g mo foreuunt iu lining iiwiiy with that pnriioti which were made lor lis." What shall iheo bo caul f What plea cut) you put into me, w hen I come Jim- hacked by my coiixlitiiefits, demanding Unit now, inanmucli as the South havo como up nsotio matt, and tmv taken awuy-all tho guarnuleea cm which wo nnd our fore-lit I he-ra re lied lo guard thu gieat domain n;jaiu t Iho eiicrout h-men I s of (dtiverv, I'lu-mtich nn it b i been ruihlensly iruuided under loot by n few treacherous nifii not consulting with iheir cimlitiims, thai you m)iu!I repeal all the co opromiso laws, iho fugitive- slavo law inehi detl, wllitll yll hold of Coti'equeiico lo )OuF llu any northern man oil Wed such u proposition T 1 know ynti complsiui d lhat wn do not submit wilh ne much resignation to ynur fitgiiive bill ni V'-tl would bo glml to tco. Well, sir, we do nut. 1 agree lo lhat. Why down nut? It ii boeutiHo tho niiriitrit mind, imbued with the principles of libeity, is unable to see the force of your claim ami till to th" slnvo. I (jrmit that llio Constitution of the dried States enhtnin what yon call a compromise; but it is rcnrcoly moronacred limn tho ono ut.der coiisiderali u. H luc ua the incliualioiis of tbo pi-itk v.lll im, o rr 11 lli. ir belings will go. yon havo a faithful execution of lhat law; but if you demand lhat against which human nature itselt revolts, you mud take it wi'h am Ii objections ns nnluiuiiy will nriso. In general your I iw lina beep enforced ; 1 but what will bo mid when you have thrown down the gauntlet on tho other aide, and (old 11a that cmpro rnUon lor our our bon lit mean nothing ut all ? Have you not got now throe uluvo Siatei out of tho I,onii-iiua purchase nearly us largo ns tho rest ul that territory, ami nre yon not enjoying it ? Has any man from iht) North ever auid il nliould bo taken from you f No, air) not a liqt of it, not a word of it. Is not freedom lo bo considered us well as slavery? Hut, sir, ( would rather put this question nn hroHder priiiciplt-s than theno compacts, sacred as they nro, and from which im man who violates them can eKcape with honor. However, ns I havo intimated nlrnnly, this is a great question ol human rights. Now, if there is nut really any dillWonco between liburiy and slavery, then all tint our hi then havo done; nil thai the IWIma'ioti of Independence Ins set fnrihj nil the U. slut ion in 1-iiiular.il und in Ihis country to further nnd gunrunlee llio principles of human liberty, me a mere nullity, tiinl on;-lit not to Im lived up to. This may be so, but wo have, hi'cil taught dill'er. ully , (ttmtlcmcn h ivn nrjMii'd ibis question na though it wero n matter of entire iuditl'eroneet whether the con- 11 nent ja to In overrun with shivery, or whether it is to bo settUd by Ireemen. I know lhat those who hold alavea may have an interest in this qnesimn but when V"U cmmilt ibis matter in tbi ht o States or commuuiiies, theio can ho hut one answer to it. It (hero ia any other, ns I smd beloto, it both aro to stand and faro alike, then human liberty is a humbug, and tyranny might to be llio order 01 1110 day. Hut, Mr. President, thi isahn nil exceedingly dangerous mio. I know tho Senator from Kentuiky snid ho did not think there would be very much nf a storm alter nil. Me wns uf opini u that iho northern mind would immediately lie dow n under il, that the North would do an ihey have I'm nm nily done, submit to it, nuti finally becomo inddtWi nt iu regnrd lo it. Hut 1 tell tho gen tleman Unit I scm indicaiioiis entirely adverse to lhat, sen it cloud, a Utile bigger now tbnn a man's hand, gathering in tho nortn, and In the wost, and all nrouml. nod anon iho whole northern heavens will ho lighted upwHliahrn that you cannot quench. 1 ho indica tions ot It nro rilu now in ine in nveus, nmi any man who is not blind can see It. There, nro meetings ol tlm peoplo in all quarters; thny express Iheir alarm, their dismny, their horror nt iho proposition which has boeit made here. You cannot make them believe that the thing is seriously contemplated here. How Is it ? Vou of the Stmlh, alt of you, propose to go for por time ; then evening came on, dark and chilly, and Desire's lips grew paler evory miuulo: still, no idings yot of the boy. Through tho long night alio listened Untuned listened, still every gust of wind made her ttembto liko tho leaves. Morning dawned, noon came again. then uiht. Then, indeed, at last they heard the trump nf heavy feet. Deeiro sprang from her chair, nnd run toward the dour, then back again to her sent, with her hands pressed tightly on her heart ; then back to ibo door.ns if hr straining ev could fierce tho darkness. It did, (iud pity her! Whit did she see? Her little Willie, quite dead, lying on a Idler, carried by Mr. Mooro and Orphy. Poor littlo Wiilio ! Thov had tracked hmi to an old (dimity, in tho wood., where ho had gathered some dry leaves and slept. Thoro wns the mark ol his 111110 lor 111 upon iho loaves. Thmithov tracked him out into tho woods, along, farther than nno would havo thought his little feet could have curried mm ; and they found him, with hia little head leaning ag-iiust a tree, qtiito .ied irotn exhaustion and hunger. Poor Di sire I There wasn't ono of those nice old farmers who woul iu't havo given his 'arm In bring Ih it little sleeper back to lifti. They took bis nio'h or' cold hands in theirs, nod chafed them, and bathed her temples, ond wiqit(trong men ns they were) to think of ihe hitter waking she, would havo. Hut God wua merciful ; she never did wttke in (hit world. In Heaven she found her boy. Little Fern for I army1 9 Little Friends. ENGLISH NOTABILITIES. Krom ft race (ireen wood's interesting bonk of a lour Ihioiipli Europe, wo extract the following account of a grand party g ven by llio Myor of fjemion, for llio sake of tlm description of a number of tho distin-t! u itlipd poisnnoges in attendance: On tho night uf iho Mth tlmro came ohFa grnnd con-vemn zimr ol tho Mant-ion Iloti'o which wo attended. Them hud ben nearly iwo lhnuatid invitations issued. There wero present, I suppose, at least fifteen hundred people ; yet nono of iho rooms except il bo the Hiipper room were uncomfortably crowded. Tho Lonl Mayor nnd the I.ndy Mayoress received thoir guests wiili a simple cotdiality, which reminded mo of the manner in which our I'n nid-nt and his family receive. Indeed, iho wholo otl'iir, but for tho gorgeous, qnatnl, old timo livery ul tho servants, would havo seemed very like u h-vee at the White House. Hut never yot have so mmiy dlflint-'uished people come together at any one gathering in America. We early took a pofiiioii mar tho Lord Mayor and tho Lady Mnyorom, where wo could Imvo a good view of the notttbdiiics us they wero announced and preset) 'oil. Sir Charles Emiluko nnd Sir Edward Landseer entered nearly nt the same liiue. They aro both short and stout, tho latter especially so, yot apparently quick lo unrvniiMies in bin movement, us he entered llio drawing room with a sort of a plunge, as though violently prop- lied. A striking contrast was presented by Mis Siri. klatid nnd Mim Purdoe; the former, in her towering figure, Inrmnl manner, and solemn tones reproducing much of iho antique alutelincs of thn early 'Queen;" iho latter, though past the first blossom of joudi, still plump ond pretty, cheerful, chatty, and clurniiug TVro was Mary Hnwitt, wilh hor sympathetic face, a clow wi'h kindly aui nation, and her lovely daughter, w ho, benidc being an artist of raro pnctio genius, line lately l iken to mithorahip, nnd produced a very sue-crstul bonk. There was (ienrgn Crinkslmnk.a rather ei ceutiie. individual, with long, straggling locks; ond Martin Ttipper, h ruddy ami smilingfrni.k and warmhearted, 111 ever ; and Dr Howiiug. who bus just returned from China, a tall, thin man in --pectacles, who was soon surrounded by a crowd of Itiends, to whom ho tHlkeil in a merry, nnirnntod maimer, not nt all in tho SHVfHiich stylo. Then there was Kisk Allah, secretary of the TurkMi omhussy, nhandsomo youugOrielb lal who is a good deal lionized jut now, on account nf a very clever bunk ho has lut ly writteu in Ertglish. Tin ro wit Albert Smith, who Hung his j"kes ri; lit and hit att ho piihsed through tho crowd, and If It a wake, ol laiighler behind htiu ; Charles Mackuy, the poet of the p-op,iho win 1.' nulled and true-hearted man; nod Mary Cowden Clurk, of Shaksperiati famo. Mortuftho foreign ministers were present, and n number of llio highest nobility. Tlm Duchess of Sutherland cam? witii her son-iu law, tho young Duke nl Argyle, She was dressed simply, in whilo, wilh a few flowt-ra nt thn buck uf her hair, and a single diamond orimtmMit, throbbing liko a alar upon hor forehead. Hit fJruio is a younger but a less bountiful woman l.reciion); somo four miles away ) simio two; home lnnlI j ox,tect, d to sue. Her beauty of face is by no would bo suid of mo if I should undertulto to deduce a ptim iplo from tho action nf Congress in 1050 in re spt el to the District nt Coltimbiu? Ymi abidihed thi mnrket lor slaves here, nnd declared lhat ihey should i.ot be brought into tho District for stile. Then I might .iay, on tho gentleman's doctrine, that yoti had settled a great principlo; that vou should not havo slave- 111111 ki t any where e.lne, ntld it would lie just a s logical j na tho priucipb a which tho pentlenum drdurna from I somo other of those compromiso nioaHiirea. The furl wo, that there wi re n grent tunny re il or f'meied interests antagotiistical tn each oilier; unci whilo baldly nuy man ngroed as to llie settlement of them ull, Ihey got together, na men settle controversies they under look to arbitrate and to compromise. Although they did not agree to nny one thing iu particular, ihey snid, wo will tnko linao memoir en ns n whole ; ihey aro tin best we can do, ami therefore wo will submit lo 1 1 mm ; ami having submitted, we will abido by them. 1 bo idea ida compromiso ot course proiuppntea llmt iho disputing parlies bnvn nut got all that Ihey were Ciuiiondiiig for. How then can you deduce principles from such a slato nf things as lh,P? No mm thought of doing il, but ono who was contending for the overthrow of even tins last compromise, without giving any rennou why he had dune ii; for I am mm if there was a ronton adequate to such nil exigency as thin, it would be onsy lo state it on paper omiherwise; but it h is not becnsluled. Mr. I'reoident, I will not prolong this discussion In tny desultory way 1 have Said all, and moro than all that I intended lo say, I am suiinlied wi'h having en- lerod my pmiest ngiiinst this mencure. If gentlemen adept it, i ey must take it with all its perils, I truit freedom will ultimately oomo out of tho conllict iri-uiuphmiily. SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. Pit rsKNT Chief Just ico Cor win and Judgea Tt aiiti.ky, TuuitMSN, lUriNK.r and Cai.ovvki.i.. liepord hir the O. H Jetjrnsl by ft. II. Wnrdnn, Olllrlal H.'n'r. February 25, . Dc. Chaff aiul llitmnrd v. Jugltt A Young Petition in error. lUnTt.r.T J. announced ihe judgment, reaanni to be hereafter written out. Petition dismissed. Moore v. Stale. Error to Trumbull county. Oalovvrm. J. announced tho judgment of a majority nf ihe judges their roaintis for tho opinion tit be hero niter wrhien out. IUnnkt .1. dissented. Judgment ullirmed, Unelinetiatn v. MeCraeken. Error. Cai.dwi.m, ,1. announced tho judgment of the Court the reason ul llie lJ..url to lie herrnlter written out. Judgment revcr cd, at d rnuso remanded for proper puig men. I.cttce vj'&'ifiirev. Tol. Error, C ai.PWM.I. .1. ft'itiounced the judgment tin' rena-us to bo beretdi'T wrillen out. Judgment ntlitineil ,Jud"o niNnr.y did not sit at the heuring tf this ease, having been of cuiinm I. .angky v. Totrnnf Ciittfwnlit. Error. n vmi.Ky J. nmiimiieed lie- jud:ruiiMit llio reanmis to bo lieteuiter wriltnn out. Judgment iillirnnd. Trmtctt ff Ctttahopa Fulls Ri al Estate Aitociation v, Cnifaftofja FiiH Ileal Kstate Amociatfan Hill ( revtovv. 1. Heir. Bpeetivo Iuas that violated 110 principle nl natural juiice, but that on ihe coutrurv were in fur- iherancct of cniii'y nnd good moral, were not forbid den by lb" constitution of IRlhL The cases following nro npprnvot and billowed: Lewis, trustee nt M ctiauics und I ruder Hank v. Mi-Kiviu, lb U. il .11 ; lohmmn v. Heulley, Hit). . 07. 11 ,i th..l. n.o ,v v. lb n-tley, I Ohi.i Sbito'K. 80 nnd Kearney v. Huiile. I Ohm Stale U. 373. So also Miller v. Ai h on. dnmt'-d nt iho present term. U. The act, entitled "an act to oiovi.le for the set dement of iho Htlnts of ihn Coynheg tails Heal tntuin nsmi miinti,' ( n u, f, , o;i) (i, not t-nn'rav th coT.htitulton of 1H0'. Decree r verged. Mediae v. State. WntU IUvmct .1. delivered an npinii.11 min'ainlog t1:o Master' liepnrt. Cohvvin 0. J. The rule dMd ng iho Docket into circuits fur oral argument, is ri'iciuded ; nnd, htvo. been found by experience to be 1111 nnvnmont In the court nr-d llio prof, soion, il wi.l not b ronewi d. Tho Court adjourned lu tlm lirat Momlny of May, I Our Wnhiugtoi conospimdeoen nivra us to under stand that the Irculy-breaki r of Congress nro begin ning to hear from Ihe people, nnd hearing, tn grow weak in the knees. Mr. Douglas has not forced his bill th run ih tho Setin'o quite a rapidly ni tin hoped, and bis mt; ifc main bus 1 hnngrd to a tnuihlcitouiu und dilatory warluro, with n rapidly increasing tiro in ihe rear. Southern members lorced to ni l in lavor of the measure, because it looks townrd slavery, nlthotih it bold out 110 real promUo nf extrnsion, and Isnmitioiis enough uf future nitatton, have no feelings nf friend ship Inward the mover, and win drop nun, ni;e an in. leetion, an somi as ii is oil their handa, if not betnro, I'ho popular video of tho North, coming iu with a roar daily swelling hie hor and higher, will have Us ell upon tho President, as well na upon thn member from Appeal fioin Huatd of Public six; and some eight. Not ciy in lihb irs who shut theinselvi a up in llu ir great jiils of house, and would not rnro if a henrto stood befuro your door ov ry day in iho year. No, indeed I They worn warm henrb d country folks, -with bear to a big as iheir pumplJiis If you worn out of meal, or moliiNme or mi gar, or tea. you wero welcome lo borrow of them till you ci uld spue titnn to send to "tho settlement" h-r Sotuo. That's tho way they lived. The men folks had loo many IteeB tn cut down lo keep tickling up iho old ox'n every five minute, and go "gco hawing'' over to ihe stores, evety time the women wauled nn Indi in cake. N't; they borrowed of cat h other (ill sumo body had time to go lo the store nr mill ; nnd then, whoever went, took all llu ir errand nod did ihetn np ill n biiicli, to save tune. liny went hy iho "gnldn rul." People who live in tho wn ds, where tho In e nro all llio time whi'.p' ring of (! ai, and tho Mule bird Nieging ol Mim, don t Icel Iit;o being q inrrelsomo ami disobliging, m;d ugly; nn. ihey leave that tn Iho city people, who livo in such a whirl tint th ) never m-member ihey have n soul till Death come ufter it. Well, as I wns paying, tin y helped one nnoiher. Orphy Smith, Mr. Moore's next neighbor, to .k Ids bg ef eoiuoned.iy, to cany il to mill Mitly was very gli,tl, bocnusn ihey had been nut nf nie;.l smne day. and sho was THllier tired nf jin'iitnea. So she made up her mind, and her mouth, th it when Orphy came back, 1 ihey would all havo " a prima supper.'' Hut Orphy didn't come tvk that night, or iho next mornit.g, either ; but, luto llie next nl'enioon, he came crnwling back, with the meal, aud told them that " he should have been hnine with it long uo, if lhat pcky wheel hadn't como oil' hi wagon, nnd il hadn't taken am-h a powerful I 'tig time t0 hlHcksuiilh il on r.gain.'1 How glud liille Mitly wa to see thut bug of meal! nnd what a nice time sho bud nf it lhat night, silting on a little ciickut hefi-ro n blueing hickory tiro, and eating the buttered cakes lhat her mm her banded down to tier from the tanlo. till, yen city children coulilo t gt I up such a frontier appetite for your lricuHee, hiiI mince ptes. 11 you 11 nil a inminio. " They didn t II tve uny newspapers there." Ah ! lliem mi havo me ! More ep cittlly as I h id as lief go without my break f.it ns wi bout my news paper; but, then, lean tell you, that there were ihings all the time huppemng tboie ou tun irnntn-r, thai many a newspaper edit r woiil I hive given his ndssoia nod easy chair In nave got li tia ot, lr bi paper. 1 II lel you about "otno. Ono night Mitty h,y in her little bed of straw and husks, alnmst n-h-ep, when she heard her father u4 ihe door, singing nt, "Hall 0-0 1 I -a 1 1 o-o I" ns loud as ever lie coiiid i mul then n luint voice way 1 fl", caught it up, nnd Ilu-n eehiH-d b ii k, " II it I I 0-0 ! h-a I 1 n !" Then Mitly' father lii n gieal bright torch, nnd moved i', Il tmirtg, buck and forth b. fore ihe door ; ami in aliith1 while a poor, woaty, liiyfib neil imveier, who hud got Inst in llio ilaik wnnds, heard ihe voice that had answered his, nnd saw, by Ihn torch, where In cumo lo find Mr. Moore; and in leu than nn bur after, bo v us Mioring nwny under Mr. M tore'n root, wilh u good, comfortable supper toe Iud under h'n 1 ilt, vvliilo llio bear had to go without any. Hears t Cerudnly I 1 didn't menli n ihe genib rm 11 be I me, fur fear it would make your mother ironhle when it ram your bed lime ; but, nevertheless, ji is a iiaht d lad tbm bears livo on the Irotiiler. t ineiluy a woman cnmo into Mr. Moore's crying ami "t dtinon" in a most piiilul manner, Mii'y couldn't iiniletst.iiid (llm wniniiu sdiln d so m:.ch) what it vV'is ah abi-u' ; but sho comdudul lhat something sp" i ll WHltoniy, became her Mini her lei her biovv 11 hi cut all burn to a crisp in tlioovev, while sho wan listeuo"! 10 her Then her mother ran out in the com field, with lo-r cap sitings nil Hying, alter bar fmlici ; uud Mr. Mourn dropp d his hoe, mil to iho house mid caught up a great tin horn, mid sin d at ihodeor, blow in;' wiih ull bis might; " fun boo loo boo Ino hi to;" nod then Orphy S nidi, th mul ink-lib r, oaiifht tin his h ro, mid blew, ten ; and tb"ii iho next, und the next; mid, iu n very h rt lime, nil ihe mdh b us knew lhat Mr. Mooro'waiitnl lliem in come io his log hotio, just r futtt as Iheir h'-r-' a' leg could j carry them S-i, iu th y ll eked Orphy R oldi, and Seih Jmn s, , and 1'eio l'ariter, an I Jtwan .l-o.ki.n, and t''; h KHet , and n wlndn limit 111 re ; and Milly's ft'lo r told ilkni, that Diir. DibdenVchitd (wln-o fnh-r hid b. en killed by ilio Indians) wns hit in thn w.x d-; and llmt wns rrjoKgfc to say; every imui nl tln ui started oil through ilio door, in it bo had b 'en tdmt out of a pq jm, in help find tlm child. Certainly; lidn'l I tell yoti lhal 'farmrrthnd htattsV IVlieii a child geiH lost In iho cilv, too tat old town cri'-r (it bo is paid for il) "take hn time" and his bell let crawl l h rough iho altee), whihing mi! slcepny C-h-i-l- l l-i -f-i ;" mul iho city folks p: about a- mm h at'enii'iu lo il. nt il you bud b id di it a six days' ItiKcn h id presumptiiimttly stepped into a vviiih tub. Ymt didn't catch Mm nice, big hearted farmers net ing that wnv ; tin y didn't s iy it h imn 1 f th- ir hu Miners, thut their run winded lineitiff, mid their Iny tvuntcd stHc-tiug, nnd their uiendow wanted plnugh ing! Thn m, lit id that poor weeping timlln r wa 'Miough. They atarti'd right olVin cionp uiies, lo Kcmir the wood for the p. J'"'", l'"t boy, Imping lo find him before nighlbtl! Cm There sat poor IV-fW, in tho chimney corner, sob bing ami ringing her hands, aud roekmg bcr body lo nnd fro. Sho wouldn't rut, tlmiigh good, kind, ue.lh erly Mrs. Moore, b iked, on purpose fir In r, some of hr most tempting cake ; sho wouldn't drink, tliMtih Mrs. Moore handed her a tdro cup of tea Sho tlid nothing but cry lit lo break In-r tmurl t while sensible little Mtlty whispered to her mother lo knnw"d she ihe North; and wo should not be surprised within n 1 hadn't better go out of tlm way, lor fearttin si;htul few days, to disrover that (leu. Pierce has never boon I her, snto In her mothm's log houe, tiiirlit make poor in favor of tho bill, or given the measure anv ojicnnr Desire cry the harder." agetnent whatever. Ct. Com, ' Dinner lime name; but the men didn't come back. tnemts reguUrand porfeel, and she is very stout; but the tout ensemble ia miking and imposing in the highest tlegreo. She has a gracious but a most regular ex pres-hi-11, mul in her manner nnd bearing there is a wonderful union of pride and soft liens, uf a bit Hi nets and graco. Altog'-lhcr tvho is a grand looking woman, for whom noma high title wmld hnvo been invented had she heeti born in a republic so royal, to absolutely imperial, is her prenei.ee. Tho Dulio of Atgyle in a small, delicato, red haired young man, r deemed In m plninticss and insignifi-cauee, Mvetv hy tho side nf his inajrBlic mollier-Iu law, by an cxprrstion of great cleverness und refinement. o had lino music Ihronghout the evening, and dan cing during tho latter part; but tho chief plea uro whs, ol course, in converioitiuii. Altogether, It was a hnlliiiut and ile!ighllul entertainment a golden oc-eiihiou, to ho long nuti plennantly retnembored. Sketch of f(ev. Pldibp Ostc b, prepared by Hon. Jo n M'Lean, L. 1 l., Jndi.e ol Supremo Court of th" I'lided Slates; Ciiieitniaii ; publi-hed at Sworm-Medl tSt Co'., for tho M, IL Chute h, Ihe Western Hook Concern, cnr. id" 8'h und Main streets. It can bo had of J M. Au.lin, or of P. U Swing, Esq., of Hatavin. Th.'Mihjict uf lhi tikeleh wns iho Anci'Ntnrof lh fiat eh Family of ibis county. Ho was one of the first 1'iuiiileis ot M-ili diin in Nonh Aiiienrn, and ono of its Pioneer Mn i-ters in llio We.d. Ho was the companion of Ceko nnd Athury wns a member uf the first C.pulereiii:n ever held in America und the first regular itinerant Minister w ho leveled in ihe State of New Jers-y ; for several year bo 1 raveled extensively through Maryland, Virginia, Now Jersey and Pennsyl-vania.atiecesstnlly disseminating the principle of Christianity, und at limes railed upon to sutler severe persecution : ul one time he was beaten, again be was covered with tar, and ngain waylaid for tho purpose of being killed. In tno Fait of 17!8 he, in Oempany with Judge Hanson nnd James Smith, emigrated to ilk N"ftti Wes'eni Territory and seitled on ihe farm. upon which ihe Rev. (ieo. Catch now resides; upon tho establishment of Clermont county, ho was appointed ouo uf iho Jtiotice of ll:o Ponce for the county. Ho wns n member of tho Convention which formed Iho tirl Constitution uf tho Slate, and in iho Spring nf lRli;i, ho wns elected ono of lht AsBiiciato Judge for tho county, iu whii h capacity ho served the conn ly fur M year. As Judge, h seemed Dot only to hav n regard fur the Administration of tho laws, hut wua anxious for tint reformation of the lives of thoso who had been cuil iy uf their violation. In iho case of Ciatk ami Kurd, who many uf our old citizens will remember, wmo convicted of crime and sentenced to receive 3 Inches each, after this barbtrott sonteuro hud Icon carried into execution. Judge 0:i!ch visited the prisoner in jail, ami otiito.'V-red so firn possible, to alleviate their suU'eiing and exhorted them to ii lormiloir live by turning from tho error of their ways, and nfo-r prnymg with ti cm, he lot them deeply infected. Wo have not space for a mum extended notice but wo would say lo nil .v hu fuel nn interest in the emlv history of iho Church in America, nnd h trai ler uf a iruly pmiis nivi, Ibey will find lid to hi'4i very valuable b ek, nod ono whii b will bo read wiOi interest by all. For s ilo at iho Methodist Hook Concern, Cincinnati; by Itov. J, M Austin and H- nll, of this place, mid by ilnt traveling IV achi r generally. Price 10 rt. t 'ti rtnnnt Courtrr. Satisvii n w irtt rtu llvii. Lvvyora frequnmly subject person who 1 fi'er ihemsi lv s for bail tn unnecessary badgering. A cisn nl itds kind occurred in tin Superior Court. Chambers, New Vork, not long ago. (rid Mr. Jt cop Atirnn s, a man worth a quar tt r nf a million uf mom y, eirer-d himself bail torn Jew lor dealt r. wlm h ul been arrested utidenhe Siil-well net. Tint nmoiinl nf bail rccniircd wns 1 500. Counsel " hit does your properly runsini of, Mr. Abr-ims V1 Ab, 'im S;r, nut willing to a won r that I am worth more than 1 1 5tn, over and abovo all. I think hi hoimr, tho Jn Ige, will It'll you that that is sutlt-eient with' ut going iett particulars." Conns. I 'No, sir, it is hot sulliriciit. We havo n rif lit to know wh it this property is." Abr.uns ' Very well, sir, I've got your own bond -nid mortgafo 011 the house you livo in, for eight ilmuniid dollars, and I roimider it Wot th full the amount of iho bail " I Mm h lauglilt r. In which llie counsel joined.' Counsel" l e do not jh In ask any moro question, Mr Ahrume. Tniho Judgo. U'u nro saltslied wilh the bail, your honor." Tin n truo it.riibuit. Mr. Abrnmshad just tnken dm b md mid mortg.i:1, Irom an Intiirancc Company, who wanted tho cah lor it. Tiik Km'kctio D. iMintAi -. Slioald thomrmber nf Cnngiie.4 hunt ihe M.ive S -ites Vtde Ullltl illiollsly for be N'biaK i Hill in tho Hon-o, nnd it is fentod that lliey will, it w ill require the vnli a i f but tii Northern DoughUees to pis lie bill in n full Session. Tho Wiediingteii Correspondent nl tli Couritr and F.n iuiier, writes th it the following vote aro expected to ho ebi'iin d Irmn ilm Free Sbil a : Now Hampshire 2, Penntvlvanii 10, Indiana i. Michigan I, New Vork-i, " Uhio:l, lllnmi 1, Iiivvtt.niel Cd'tTtiia '2, This estimate gives six moro voti ihiin requirtdto pass the leitnigo nil l-'remli ui ami Freo Men Cltv. Herald, Scrr-ncisM.-Secptieim is ihe inotlier of credulity ; the nbandonmeiit ut sotier rnnmiai irotn, to llie em Lrtcrtimd indubvn.'e of unnumbered extravagant absurdities; ihe loosing of a frail b irk fioin ils mooring in tho lempe.iKiiied harbor of safety, to the perilous dangers and stnrm of the billowy ocean of uncertainly, where ilmbt niter doubt, liko rolling surges, bears it away far from the light-bouo id mason and passing the last lingeiin't glimmer ofeternal truth is soon lost in the mielstmm of perdition. Itffo '